As BRI Concerns Grow, a Checklist to Assess Risk
Xi Jinping’s massively ambitious infrastructure investment plan, the Belt and Road Initiative...
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Report: Belt and Road Aims to Expand Beijing’s Influence
Xi Jinping’s Belt and Road Initiative, a trillion dollar-plus, 65-nation trade and...
After Talks, India Still Wary of China
During a visit to India last week by Chinese defence minister General Liang Guanglie, the two countries agreed to resume joint military exercises. But India remains wary of China’s growing presence in South Asia and the...
Chinese Minister Stresses ‘Harmonious Co-Existence’
Despite the recent controversy over the release of detained Chinese fishermen, Chinese defense minister, Liang Guanglie, said China is focusing on peaceful development with Sri Lanka. Liang’s reiteration of China’s...
Reports Conflict on Detained Fishermen
Despite China’s growing involvement in Sri Lanka’s development and the construction of port Hambantota, China Daily reports Sri Lanka has arrested 37 Chinese fishermen for fishing in Sri Lankan waters. These reports come amid...
China’s Development Diplomacy
Saferworld’s Thomas Wheeler examines China’s impact on the international aid system and recipient countries, and suggests that a chance exists for greater aid co-operation between China and the West. From The...
How Beijing Won Sri Lanka’s Civil War
The Independent reports on China’s role in last year’s end to the brutal civil war in Sri Lanka between the Tamil Tigers (aka Liberation Tamil Tigers of Eelam): In defiance of all predictions, the war was brought to...
India Worries as China Builds Ports in South Asia
China is worrying the Indian government by developing the port of Hambantota in Sri Lanka: Now, China is investing millions to turn this fishing hamlet into a booming new port, furthering an ambitious trading strategy in South...
James Lamont and Amy Kazmin: Fear of Influence
The Financial Times published the following analysis: Hambantota, in southern Sri Lanka, was a sleepy seaside village devastated by the 2004 tsunami. Famous for salt flats and a searing climate, it’s most celebrated building was...
Sri Lanka Creates Special Economics Zone for Chinese Investors
The Times of India reports that Sri Lanka has created a SEZ near the city of Colombo exclusively for Chinese companies: This is one of the decisions taken during meetings between Chinese leaders and Sri Lankan Foreign Minister...
Brahma Chellaney: China Fuels Sri Lankan War
From the Japan Times: Sri Lanka, the once self-trumpeted “island of paradise,” turned into the island of bloodshed more than a quarter-century ago. But even by its long, gory record, the bloodletting since last year...
India, China Jostle For Influence In Indian Ocean
From AP: This battered harbor town on Sri Lanka’s southern tip, with its scrawny men selling even scrawnier fish, seems an unlikely focus for an emerging international competition over energy supply routes that fuel much...
Tarique Niazi: China’s March on South Asia
From the Jamestown Foundation’s China Brief, via Asia Media: In keeping with its economic expansion, China has deepened its strategic influence in the region, especially with India’s immediate neighbors – Bangladesh, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka. Beijing has long kept a close strategic partnership with Islamabad, but its overtures to the remaining countries were hobbled […]
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