- Friday, April 26, 2024
By: Keerthi Mohan
India caught flatfooted by the appointment of Mahinda Rajapaksa as Sri Lanka’s premier, has opened urgent diplomatic and political contacts with the strongman who drew close to China during his previous tenure as president, officials said. The tear-shaped island, located off the southern tip of India, has become an arena of tussle between New Delhi and Beijing, which has built ports, power stations and highways as part of its Belt and Road Initiative of trade and transport links across Asia. Rajapaksa had opened up Sri Lanka’s main port to Chinese naval submarines when he was president, which stoked anger in…
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