India interfering in Sri Lanka's internal affairs: China thinktank

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India interfering in Sri Lanka's internal affairs, says Chinese thinktank

BEIJING: A Chinese government backed thinktank has accused India of interfering in the internal affairs of Sri Lanka when Prime Minister Narendra Modi recently visited the Tamil dominated Jafna area. It has also said India was trying to counter Beijing's influence by encouraging Sri Lanka, Myanmar and Bangladesh to avoid the China's Silk Road program.

"Modi included in his Sri Lanka trip the city of Jaffna in the Tamil-majority Northern Province, which in fact shows India's interference in the country's internal affairs," an article by Liu Zongyi, a researcher at the state-backed Shanghai Institutes for International Studies, said.

Incidentally, Sri Lankan leaders, who accompanied Modi on his Jafna visit, has no such suspicion about Indian interference.

Modi's recent visit to three Indian Ocean countries was aimed at making India a dominant power in the region, the article published in Global Times, a Communist Party organ, said.

"Now that Modi has reached out to the Indian Ocean island states, it seems India is determined to gain a dominant position in the region by enhancing military and security cooperation with them," the researcher said. But he predicted that India and Sri Lanka would not be able to develop rapport because of differences over affairs relating to Tamils and fishing rights.

Sore about Sri Lanka's decision to stall a Chinese contract for port city development in Colombo, the writer cites media reports that suggest that "New Delhi has gained the upper hand when Colombo halted the China-invested project".

"Many overseas media outlets reckoned that Modi travelled to these island countries mainly to counterbalance China's growing presence in the Indian Ocean," the article said.

India is suspicious about China's Silk Road program because it thinks Beijing has some ulterior motives, the researcher said.

New Delhi doesn't want countries in South Asia and the Indian Ocean to participate in the program, but it is unable to propose a substitute," it said. "And Modi rushed through a hollow Project Mausam to counter the 21st century maritime Silk Road before Xi kicked off his visit to India in September 2014".
India interfering in Sri Lanka's internal affairs, says Chinese thinktank - The Times of India

If one recalls, the Chinese posters, when they had started visiting this forum, used to claim that none in China cared much about India or its interaction in the world.

Actually, there came a time in the recent past, when Indians too did not care since there was not much to care about except to watch the Govt blunder from one blunder to the other and remain moribund, impotent and supine.

However, with the advent of Modi, China took India in its stride and shed some of its benign complacency to take note.

However, with Modi's excursions abroad making a mark everywhere including in Sri Lanka, which China thought was in their pocket and with the latest proactive interactive tour in the Indian Ocean region, its has put China on fire since China thought it was a done ballgame that China had influenced peddled in the Indian Ocean Region most affirmatively and successfully.

Indeed, China is now seriously concerned and worried that the initiative and influence built up over the years at great expense, to include money, is slowly slipping out of their hand.

That, and the fact that Modi is having no qualms to execute difficult non populist schemes that are putting India into the realm of becoming a power engine has made China's pant go on fire.

 

[Blackwater]

Re: India interfering in Sri Lanka's internal affairs : Chinese thinkt

and china sexually exploit Pakistan everyday , did india say anything

 

[sorcerer]

Re: India interfering in Sri Lanka's internal affairs : Chinese thinkt


Exact response India had expected from China..

China thought that money could buy friends( our Chinese posters in here...use the buying power to show Chinese influence and 'relationship' )..but statecraft is a whole other thing.

There are few things money can buy..for everything else..there is diplomacy!!

 

[Ray]

Re: India interfering in Sri Lanka's internal affairs : Chinese thinkt

Ethnic, historic and cultural similarity also plays a role.

One finds it uncomfortable if alien looking folks,with out of the world culture, weird food habits romp around as if they own the land.

Many Indians who love Chinese food, as they know it, find China's Chinese food weird and way out in its taste and choice of meats or fish or whatever.

But say what you want, the array of what the Chinese can eat, leaves the world in wonderment since they find many of the choice loathsome and disgusting.

 

[sgarg]

Re: India interfering in Sri Lanka's internal affairs : China thinktan

India SHOULD interfere in Sri Lanka's "internal affairs" to ensure it does not take anti-India actions. I am ALL for such interference.

Sri Lanka cannot be allowed to become a nightmare for India's security. People forget that Sri Lanka is too close for comfort; and has vast potential for mischief.

Proactive actions are needed on GOI's part to ensure Sri Lanka remains within its limits. If not, then strict action is needed.

 

[HeinzGud]

Re: India interfering in Sri Lanka's internal affairs : China thinktan

India SHOULD interfere in Sri Lanka's "internal affairs" to ensure it does not take anti-India actions. I am ALL for such interference.

Sri Lanka cannot be allowed to become a nightmare for India's security. People forget that Sri Lanka is too close for comfort; and has vast potential for mischief.

Proactive actions are needed on GOI's part to ensure Sri Lanka remains within its limits. If not, then strict action is needed.

Yeah right. Strict action. AFAIK last India lost it's PM and 1000 of soldiers due to the strict action. It also paved the way for the downfall of the then government.

 

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Re: India interfering in Sri Lanka's internal affairs : China thinktan

Yeah right. Strict action. AFAIK last India lost it's PM and 1000 of soldiers due to the strict action. It also paved the way for the downfall of the then government.

Indian should not interfere.

India should mere assist when asked.

IPKF lost soldiers because the aim was not clear. Initially to maintain peace and then to enforce peace and the whole thing remained half way home.

Do you really feel that SL has the ability as Pakistan?

If Pakistan has been defeated repeatedly four times, do you really think SL has a chance?

 

[HeinzGud]

Re: India interfering in Sri Lanka's internal affairs : China thinktan

Indian should not interfere.

India should mere assist when asked.

IPKF lost soldiers because the aim was not clear. Initially to maintain peace and then to enforce peace and the whole thing remained half way home.

Do you really feel that SL has the ability as Pakistan?

If Pakistan has been defeated repeatedly four times, do you really think SL has a chance?

Sri Lanka never asked India to come and help. India came with there own will.

Sri Lanka is not Pakistan and Sri Lanka don't have a Punjab plain and a Thar desert.

Moreover Sri Lankans aren't Muslims. If India ever intervene in SL militarily there will serious backlash from USA/EU if UNP is in the parliament or from China if Mahinda is in the parliament.

 

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Re: India interfering in Sri Lanka's internal affairs : China thinktan

Sri Lanka never asked India to come and help. India came with there own will.

Sri Lanka is not Pakistan and Sri Lanka don't have a Punjab plain and a Thar desert.

Moreover Sri Lankans aren't Muslims. If India ever intervene in SL militarily there will serious backlash from USA/EU if UNP is in the parliament or from China if Mahinda is in the parliament.

You must bone up before you write.

Let me educate you and fill the gap in your knowledge.

Indian Peace Keeping Force was the Indian military contingent performing a peacekeeping operation in Sri Lanka between 1987 and 1990. It was formed under the mandate of the Indo-Sri Lankan Accord signed between India and Sri Lanka in 1987 that aimed to end the Sri Lankan Civil War between militant Sri Lankan Tamil nationalists such as the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) and the Sri Lankan military.

When I alluded to India defeating Pakistan four times, it was a polite way to rebuff your Dutch courage brouhaha that you can take on India. I meant compared to Pakistan and it military might, you are minnows or even insect like in size and inventory.

If the aim of the IPKF was to take over SL, then you were but only a pushover.

If it is done now, before there is a backlash from anywhere, it would be over before anyone will realise.

You must understand SL is vulnerable from ALL sides.

However, that is not India's aim and never will be.

 

[Aravind Sanjeev]

I wouldn't expect any other response apart from this very one from the Chinese side.
In any case, the Indian ocean islands are majorly impacted by India. India subsidized Sri lanka's rail project extend only 2 years back.

The issue here is basic, we can't let China assume control over the island on the grounds that its certain China will utilize it against India of the apprehension that US may utilize India against China. (Later on).

Furthermore, it is essential for stalling India's economy from not being risen.