{"id":136710,"date":"2024-06-08T12:15:30","date_gmt":"2024-06-08T12:15:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/?p=136710"},"modified":"2024-06-08T12:15:30","modified_gmt":"2024-06-08T12:15:30","slug":"does-sri-lanka-have-a-balanced-foreign-policy-with-china-by-arundathie-abeysinghe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/does-sri-lanka-have-a-balanced-foreign-policy-with-china-by-arundathie-abeysinghe\/","title":{"rendered":"Does Sri Lanka have a balanced Foreign Policy with China? By Arundathie Abeysinghe"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #333300;\"><strong>Does Sri Lanka have a balanced Foreign Policy with China?<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #333300;\"><strong>By Arundathie Abeysinghe<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-136711 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Does-Sri-Lanka-have-a-balanced-Foreign-Policy-with-China.png\" alt=\"Does Sri Lanka have a balanced Foreign Policy with China\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-94945 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Ms.-Arundathie-Abeysinghe.jpg\" alt=\"Arundathie Abeysinghe\" width=\"163\" height=\"148\" \/>Sri Lanka\u2019s foreign policy challenges come to the forefront as it struggles with the complicated dynamics of maintaining neutrality whilst participating in economic cooperation with powerful states, especially China. Long-term lease of Hambantota Port, presence of Chinese submarines \u201cShi Yan-6\u201d in October 2023 and \u2018Yuan Wang-5\u2019 in August 2022 including plans for a Chinese radar base are major issues which raise questions regarding the foreign policy of the island nation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Neighboring countries, including India is agonized that ports in Sri Lanka could become pit-stops for Chinese vessels to re-stock supplies and fuel.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Is Sri Lanka caught up in a strategic port deal with China? After struggling for many years to repay the massive loan obtained by the Rajapakse regime, in 2017, Sirisena-Ranil government handed over the port to China on a 99-year lease.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">During the handing-over ceremony (in Parliament), former Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe (current president) said, \u201cHambantota will be converted to a major port in the Indian Ocean.\u201d Yet, after China gained control of the Port, many analysts raised concerns that China could use it for military purposes. According to former Indian foreign secretary Shivshankar Menon, \u201cthe only way to justify the investment in Hambantota is from a national security standpoint &#8211; that they will bring the People\u2019s Liberation Army in.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Similarly, in 2018, U.S. Vice President Mike Pence stated, \u201cBeijing pressured Sri Lanka to deliver the new port directly into Chinese hands. It may soon become a forward military base for China\u2019s growing blue-water navy.\u201d Sri Lankan government rejected the U.S. claim.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">This issue was further emphasized by Prime Minister Ranil Wickremasinghe in his Oxford University talk \u201cthere are no foreign naval bases in Sri Lanka; some people are seeing imaginary Chinese Naval bases.\u201d PM Wickremasinghe\u2019s comments came days after U. S. Vice President Mike\u2019s warnings regarding China\u2019s strategic use of debt.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Meanwhile. in November 2021, United States Department of Defense released a comprehensive report titled \u2018Military and Security Developments Involving the People\u2019s Republic of China\u2019 and highlighted the fact that Beijing is already considering and planning for additional military bases and logistics facilities to support naval, air, and ground forces projections in several countries, including Sri Lanka.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\"><strong>Chinese radar base in Dondra Bay<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">According to scholars, China is planning to set up a radar base in the jungle near Dondra Bay, about 155 kilometers southeast of Sri Lanka\u2019s commercial capital Colombo.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">The radar base will facilitate China to monitor India&#8217;s assets in the Indian Ocean, including its Navy and strategic installations in the southern and eastern parts of South Asia, similar to Kudankulam and Kalpakkam nuclear power plants and their refuelling activities.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">According to observers, Dondra Bay&#8217;s radar station could also track the movements of Indian warships en route to Andaman and Nicobar Islands. 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