China Was Once Buying Up Sri Lankan Ports. Now It’s India’s Turn.
April 19th, 2026
Courtesy of The Diplomat, a look at how the Indian Ocean has no shortage of distressed strategic assets: financially stressed yards, ports, and logistics infrastructure in small states that cannot sustain them independently. Nearly 20 years after China stirred fears about “debt trap diplomacy” with its construction and takeover of the Hambantota Port in Sri […]
Read more »India, UAE to Develop Sri Lanka Energy Hub as Delhi Competes with China for Influence
April 7th, 2025
Via Reuters, a look at Indian and UAE efforts to develop Sri Lanka energy hub as Delhi competes with China for influence: India and the United Arab Emirates agreed to develop an energy hub in Sri Lanka, India’s foreign ministry said on Saturday, as New Delhi’s competition with China grows in the Indian Ocean island nation. […]
Read more »China and Sri Lanka Eye New Phase of BRI with $3.7bn Investment
January 17th, 2025
Via Nikkei Asia, an article on China’s renewed BRI interest in Sri Lanka: Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake will wrap up his inaugural visit to China Friday after securing a landmark investment deal that can help his country’s struggling economy, while adding value to Beijing’s Belt and Road Initiative projects in the strategically-located island. […]
Read more »Sri Lanka Must Pivot To The BRICS For A New Dawn
September 21st, 2024
Via Eurasia Review, commentary on the potential that the BRICS can offer Sri Lanka as economic and strategic partners: In the run up to elections the post-Marxist National People’s Party (NPP), has run a high-gloss, foreign-funded, election campaign to market its policies as a ‘new dawn’. Remarkably, the NPP and rival political parties alike had […]
Read more »Sri Lanka’s Central Asia Gambit
August 31st, 2024
Via The Diplomat, a report on why the Indian Ocean island state of Sri Lanka is making a concerted effort to build ties in landlocked Central Asia: On August 21, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Sri Lanka, together with The Geopolitical Cartographer, a Colombo-based think-tank specializing in the Indian Ocean, organized a forum on Central […]
Read more »Sri Lanka’s Underappreciated Asset: Offshore LNG
July 29th, 2024
Via The Diplomat, a report on how Sri Lanka’s development of its natural gas resources will help the country overcome its economic crisis, provide energy security, and lower carbon dioxide emissions: For now, Sri Lanka’s severe economic crisis seems to be in remission. Many challenges still confront the government and population, from a substantial national […]
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