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Sri Lanka’s foreign policy posture is to balance the US and China, being part of both BRI and the Indo-Pacific.
India and Sri Lanka have injected pragmatism into bilateral relations, which began disappearing after China’s entry through the Hambantota port deal
Independent of the ruling party or leader in Colombo, New Delhi’s concerns viz China in Sri Lanka is bound to grow.
While bilateral political issues seem to have been kept under control through the post-war decade in Sri Lanka; at another level, it is a livelihood i
The Opposition — PPM-PNC combine — has called upon New Delhi, along with Sri Lanka and Pakistan, to help obtain freedom for Yameen.
Sri Lanka could explore and benefit more from close ties with the middle powers than equating most foreign policy decisions on binaries.
For Sri Lanka, big ticket foreign investment matters right now more than at any time in the post-Independence era.
Sri Lanka should use the upcoming summit to move forward with its proposal to ensure that BIMSTEC maintains its momentum.
The Sri Lankan government’s decision became a hotly-contested political issue after the World Health Organisation cleared burial as a safe procedure
At present, albeit in a different context, there is another westward strategy from the Eastern Pacific theatre. It is that of the US Pacific Command i
The subregional approach has been providing Delhi the opportunity to experiment with new arrangements in building security cooperation with its neighb
The creation of the Quad — with implications for small Ocean neighbours like Sri Lanka — has become a core concern for the nation’s foreign and
In South Asia, Sri Lanka — with its geographically unique position in the Indian Ocean, and with a strong BRI partnership established during the pre
Given the trajectory of the China relations — Sri Lanka’s ‘India First’ policy will obviously be confined to bilateral security issues and New
Zooming out and looking at South Asian geopolitics, India appears to be reaching out, repairing and resetting relations with several of its smaller ne
Making political history, Mahinda Rajapaksa secured more than half a million votes to his premiership in Sri Lanka.
In working out the constitutional changes in terms of division of powers between the President and Parliament, represented purportedly by the Prime Mi
The two countries are holding talks for India to reschedule Sri Lanka’s $900 million India debt.
Mahinda Rajapaksa stands out as a symbolic leader surviving political office with internal and external pressure at various interludes.
President Rajapaksa has now chosen the local audience and delivered the message/threat personally — from the highest levels of the Sri Lankan state.
With Geopolitical Cold War 2.0 and domestic economic strain, President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has the two daunting challenges ahead of him. He would have
The structure of the international system and balance of power tend to limit the foreign policy choices of smaller states. But we are now living in a
While Colombo and New Delhi may carry historic baggage with each other on various issues, fighting ISIS is something that barely interjects with those
Governments should adopt certain processes and values to certify the critical infrastructure projects of the Chinese.
There is little or no excitement in global capitals over the Sri Lankan presidential polls this time, unlike during the last three elections of 2005,
Most minorities are Tamil-speaking, accounting for a substantial 30% of the population.
As two democracies, Afghanistan and Sri Lanka share many development needs and challenges — this underpin their growing ties.
Colombo has to find ways to permanently ally apprehensions of a section of the Indian strategic community — particularly naval experts.
Modi in his first overseas visit in the new term, extended an early hand to the two Indian Ocean neighbours to ensure collective security.
All nations, including India, would be watching for inclinations on how the ‘new Maldives’ intends to avoid a China-induced ‘debt-trap’ of the
In the aftermath of the Easter serial-attacks in Sri Lanka, the security forces in Maldives conducted an emergency response exercise, and border secur
