India on Thursday tacitly conveyed its concerns over China’s purported plan to send a “research ship” to Hambantota Port of Sri Lanka for about a week, apparently for surveying the northwestern part of the Indian Ocean. New Delhi is assessing the implications of the proposed visit of China’s scientific research vessel “Yuan Wang 5” to Hambantota Port of Sri Lanka on the
India is cautiously watching the political developments in neighboring Sri Lanka, where Mahinda Rajapaksa has resigned from the office of the Prime Minister in the wake of growing protests against the failure of the government to manage the economic crisis.
India on Thursday extended a Line of Credit of $1 billion (Rs 7,592 crore) to Sri Lanka to help the cash-strapped island nation to buy food, medicines and other essentials. New Delhi extended the credit facility to Colombo just a day after the Indian Navy sent five sailing vessels to Sri Lanka, where India of late crawled back much of the strategic space it had lost to China
No “third party” should interfere in the “friendly relations” between Beijing and Colombo, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi told Sri Lankan Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa during his visit to the island nation earlier this month. It was not lost on anyone which country he referred to as the “third party”, given the history of strategic rivalry between China and India in the
No “third party” should interfere in the “friendly relations” between Beijing and Colombo, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi told Sri Lankan Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa during his visit to the island nation earlier this month.