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The visit has significance due to China’s growing ties with countries in the region and the US policy of containing China through the Quad.

INS Ranvijay, a Rajput Class Destroyer of the Indian navy, is scheduled to be in Colombo from 14-16 April.

Compliance or the lack of it depends on the balance of power or realpolitik

Colombo pinning hopes on Modi's reported assurance to Gotabaya Rajapaksa that "India will not do any injustice to Sri Lanka."

According to an article in South China Morning Post in November, over the years, the number of websites blocked in China has ballooned to 10,000.

Sri Lanka Port Authority Chairman Maj.Gen.Daya Ratnayake says that Adanis will partner with John Keels and other companies on the US$ 700 million project

To stem the revival of Tamil separatist terrorism and Islamic extremism in the ethnically mixed province.

Sri Lanka needs the support of India and the Muslim countries to beat the West’s bid to get a hostile resolution passed in the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva

“The entire world is benefitted with this initiative, as the Indian Ocean is the lifeline of the entire world,” said said Sri Lankan Foreign Secretary Adm.Prof. Jayanath Colombage.

Sri Lanka is on the horns of a dilemma, with India also making a good counter offer, but the Tamil parties in the North are wanting China out and India in