K.C. Singh | Sri Lanka, India & China: The Great Game resumes
Deccan ChronicleBetween the war in Ukraine and the Covid-19 pandemic now swirling in China, the world has had little time to worry about the public uprising in Sri Lanka. An already economically challenged Sri Lanka was dealt a fatal blow by the war escalating the price of energy overnight, while Covid-19 engendered lockdowns in China disrupted the global supply chains. Luckily for Sri Lanka, the Congress-led UPA government assumed power in New Delhi in 2004, giving Colombo the freedom to eliminate the Tamil Tigers without any Indian meddling. Besides quickly transferring $2.4 billion to help Sri Lanka avoid a loan default, India is now giving 65,000 metric tonnes of urea, helping reverse the sudden jolt to Sri Lanka’s agro-economy. But limiting China’s military access to its ports while India strengthens its presence in Trincomalee on the east coast of Sri Lanka would be a gain.
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