Modi govt goes on charm offensive as Sri Lanka stands up to China

[JohnyD]

now Bangladesh and Srilanka dono's hamare ghulam hai

how mean.........they are our partners...pls edit ur post!

 

[singh sahab]

I agree.. Hate generalizing but sometimes it takes you over the line, Unintentionally

Dude, You want to know what over the line is?

Try looking the my discussion with several Pakistani members on topic - "Why do Pakistani love Kashmir"?

I was bashed, looked down upon, even abused on my religion/background/nationality/riots issue by those Pakistani members and even by a moderator at that time. I did not cross the line, and i replied in kind. I was shocked by the hatred in moderator and members and they ridiculed and abused my religion as much as they could. I did not, at any time fell to their level and generalized Pakistani people as a whole and replied on individual basis.

I'm not giving any example, it's just that if you have this much experience here you should know better to avoid these trolls rather engage them.

 

[Sam.]

Wont disagree.. After all all countries do whatever is best for their nation, Big or small

Just that some people here are really overestimating themselves

If you say it 1000 times it won't become reality.Your hatred towards Bharat is so deep but you hide it behind your white collar.

 

[Sanchez]

China should abandon all the projects and let Indians take over. Indians should take a look in the mirror and ask for wtf India has done for SL in the past decades...

 

[Gibbs]

Dude, You want to know what over the line is?

Try looking the my discussion with several Pakistani members on topic - "Why do Pakistani love Kashmir"?

I was bashed, looked down upon, even abused on my religion/background/nationality/riots issue by those Pakistani members and even by a moderator at that time. I did not cross the line, and i replied in kind. I was shocked by the hatred in moderator and members and they ridiculed and abused my religion as much as they could. I did not, at any time fell to their level and generalized Pakistani people as a whole and replied on individual basis.

I'm not giving any example, it's just that if you have this much experience here you should know better to avoid these trolls rather engage them.

Different people have different levels of tolerance.. Wish i had yours..

Never cared about those 'some people', and won't care ever.

What i still do not understand is, what the hell SL would give as an excuse to Chinese in case SL finally calls off the port project.

They wont call it off i can assure you.. They cant afford to such a massive investment.. It's part political drama part environmental and corruption concerns.. President Sirisena will embark on his state visit to China mid March (Only his 2nd trip).. All niggling issues will be ironed out

 

[Jlaw]

Narendra Modi govt goes on charm offensive as Sri Lanka stands up to China

Hours before External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj’s arrival in Colombo on Friday and a week before Prime Minister Narendra Modi visits Sri Lanka (13-14 March), the government of Maithripala Sirisena has taken the bold decision of suspending a $1.5 billion Chinese real estate project in Colombo.

The Sirisena government has walked the talk and it's a high stake foreign policy gamble by his government. Not many countries have rebuffed China so strongly and that too within two months after Sirisena stunned the world by winning the 8 January presidential elections.

Sirisena has moved in quickly to brace himself up for the upcoming parliamentary elections in Sri Lanka as on Thursday he was made Chairman of Sri Lanka’s largest party Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) which has 126 MPs in the 225-member Sri Lankan parliament. Interestingly, Sirisena had defected from the SLFP just before the presidential election to become the joint opposition candidate.

Needless to say, this political move of Sirisena also has adverse implications for China as it is meant to keep former president Mahinda Rajapaksa out. Rajapaksa was a strong supporter of China and the Sri Lankan opposition parties had repeatedly questioned his pro-China policies which were also at the expense of India’s strategic interests in the island nation.

Swaraj’s two-day visit to Sri Lanka (6-7 March) will set the stage for PM Modi's visit to this important neighbour. It will be the first time that an Indian Prime Minister will be visiting Sri Lanka in over 25 years. Apart from having structured talks with her Sri Lankan counterpart Mangala Samaraweera, Swaraj will also be meeting Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe as well as Sirisena, and brief her Sri Lankan interlocutors about the Indian preparations for the extremely significant upcoming visit of PM Modi.

The last prime ministerial visit from India to Sri Lanka was way back in 1987 when Rajiv Gandhi had visited the island nation. But that visit triggered a growing India-Sri Lanka divide as India got sucked into the cesspool of Sri Lanka’s civil war and Rajiv Gandhi’s policies pitted India against the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). Just about four years later, Gandhi was assassinated by the LTTE in Sriperumbudur, Tamil Nadu.

Modi’s upcoming Sri Lanka visit will have many firsts. He will be visiting multiple Sri Lankan cities and will be the first Indian PM to visit Jaffna which was a de facto capital of the LTTE till the rebel group was militarily defeated by Sri Lankan armed forces in May 2009.

Modi will also be the fourth Indian Prime Minister to address Sri Lankan parliament, an honour that his predecessors like Jawaharlal Nehru, Indira Gandhi and Morarji Desai had. Desai was the last India PM to have addressed the Sri Lankan parliament way back in 1979.

Sri Lanka’s ancient capital Anuradhapura, a stronghold of Buddhists, is also on PM Modi’s itinerary. He is also likely to visit Kandy and inspect ongoing Indian housing projects there.

China will obviously be the elephant in the room as India and Sri Lanka engage with one another at top political levels in the coming days. China has been wooing dozens of Indian Ocean and Asia Pacific littoral states for its $40 billion Maritime Silk Road, which is Beijing’s ambitious strategic project aimed at linking China with to-be-constructed multiple communication lines in Indian Ocean Region and Asia Pacific.

India is wary of the Chinese MSR project and Sri Lanka is a key country for China in implementing its MSR project. However, the Sri Lankan government’s decision to suspend the $1.5 billion Chinese project in Colombo and Sirisena’s emergence as top leader of SLFP have stopped the Chinese juggernaut.

Though the Sirisena government has only suspended the Chinese on environmental grounds and not cancelled it outright, the move may trigger a cascade and may embolden other small nations to take on China. Beijing will inevitably be using its immense diplomatic and economic clout to stem the rot here and now and not allow it to become a trend.

On India’s part, New Delhi will be keen to see that the Sirisena government does not lose momentum in its current policies of purging the Chinese influence in Sri Lanka which had become a major cause of worry for the Indian strategic establishment.This will be the main strategic template for India-Sri Lanka engagements in the coming days and months. The strategic competition between the Chinese Dragon and Indian Elephant has begun in right earnest in Sri Lanka.

Narendra Modi govt goes on charm offensive as Sri Lanka stands up to China - Firstpost

Blood is thicker than water.

 

[Gibbs]

If you say it 1000 times it won't become reality.Your hatred towards Bharat is so deep but you hide it behind your white collar.

i will follow your own signature.. Quite apt for responding to people like you

China should abandon all the projects and let Indians take over. Indians should take a look in the mirror and ask for wtf India has done for SL in the past decades...

They wont be able to afford it.. Where are the funds gonna come from ?

 

[Gibbs]

Whatever dude. They must come out clear. They should declare if they are going ahead with project or not.

One second they are building, next second they are not building. Building, not building. I mean, com'on dude. Make your mind. Chill the Fu@k out.

And i don't buy your logic of drama? Why are they doing it? Could be only 2 reasons
1) To impress India, and planning to build anyway later on and angry India. Dude, doesn't make sense.
2) To angry China, and build later one to make them happy? Why angry them in the first place then? Doesn't make sense to me either.

Either they are confused, or they are just trolling with Chinese, because they wouldn't even raise this corruption and environment issue, if they planned to move ahead already.

Erm.. They have suspended the construction pending certain clearances, Environmental and legal.. Nobody said they have cancelled the project

 

[GORKHALI]

It is Sri Lanka's curse to have India as a neighbour.

Dont worry coming winter we will be big family.

Lets capture Srilankans, what say boys?? All we need is to drop tanks from our aircrafts over Srilanka.

 

[Gibbs]

Yeah okay. Suspended, But why?

Because of the given reasons

Dont worry coming winter we will be big family.

Lets capture Srilankans, what say boys?? All we need is to drop tanks from our aircrafts over Srilanka.

Is that bollywood flick coming out in the summer ?

 

[Bornubus]

China should abandon all the projects and let Indians take over. Indians should take a look in the mirror and ask for wtf India has done for SL in the past decades...

indians shed their blood to keep sri lanka united

 

[Azizam]

Sri Lanka's Ties With India And China Are Equally Important: Wickremasinghe

The Government of Sri Lanka sees both India and China as important allies, but interacts and deals with them separately, said Prime Minister Ranil Wickremasinghe.

In an exclusive interview to Thanthi TV, Prime Minister Wickremasinghe said Friday, "We keep the Indo-Sri Lanka relations separate from the Sino-Sri Lanka relations... Both are important for us. With India, there is a historic link. Under the Indo-Lanka agreement, both countries have agreed that they will not take any measures that will harm the security of the other country. So, in conducting our relations with China or, with other country, we keep this in mind."

"With this way, we are able to handle the Indo-Sri Lanka relationship separately from the Sino-Lanka relations. What we did not like was the attempt at the time of Rajapaksa regime to play India off against China. Play the China card with India, (and the) India card with China. That is not a wise policy. India also helped us. Without the help of India, President Rajapaksa could have not wiped out the LTTE. He got that help and he agreed to give concessions even beyond the 13th amendment...But he did not do so," Wickremasinghe added.

The Sri Lankan Prime Minister further went on to say that India did help his country in the civil war against the LTTE, and rather humorously said that those in denial of this fact, were suffering from selective amnesia.

When asked specifically to respond to the view that India has been categorically denying its role in the war against the LTTE, Wickremasinghe said, "Yes... certainly (they did have a role). Amnesia, you know is very common among politicians."

Asked to respond to the perception that the previous regime (of Mahinda Rajapaksa) was largely in tilt towards China, Wickremasinghe first reaction was, "As I told you, we have no Pro china tilt; we have No Pro India tilt."

Sri Lanka's Ties With India And China Are Equally Important: Wickremasinghe

 

[Sam.]

i will follow your own signature.. Quite apt for responding to people like you

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.

Mahatma Gandhi

 

[GORKHALI]

Because of the given reasons



Is that bollywood flick coming out in the summer ?

Damn am serious.. WE should be a ine big family...

 

[Sanchez]

indians shed their blood to keep sri lanka united

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And the crimes you committed in SL...?