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what's this Indian managed port next to chinese port they are talking about? the usual BBC half truths, they left out the part about aid from India during SL crisis, relegating India to bollywood song and dance. just a reflection of britain's foreign policy narrative on India. ======= How Sri...

if SL lets chini in again, there will be another regime change. zimble. not saying GoI is behind it.

i don't think GoI is interested in control, rather stability in the region. Indian diplomacy doesn't have the tools to control other nations anyways. there is hardly any of value that SL can offer us other than raw material for tyres, that too is diminishing since our own tyre companies are...

what say boys, good for bad for SL? ===== Sri Lanka to resume negotiations on stalled trade agreement with India http://www.adaderana.lk/news.php?nid=86737

sure, why not. it might even happen, if the current cold war keeps escalating in the current trajectory.

the expectation that SL should not side with china, is not so different from murican expectations that India should not side with Russia.

yes, it is hard to say. if they say it, well and good. if not, obviously there is a bridge that needs to be straightened. china has been their benefactor since about a decade, at a time when the west abandoned them for human rights violations. as jai shankar says, nations operate on self...

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unable to find any news of such offer made in public domain. if it was done, it will be in the news.

looks like you are unable to grasp what i said earlier. yours and my prescriptions for India's foreign policy mean zilch nada zero.

my advice, let go of these notions of bravado when it comes to India's foreign policy. it doesn't matter which party is in power. aggressive posture of countries take years of build up, they don't happen just like that. just like in military, foreign policy too has an escalation ladder.

when did GoI ever use stick in past 20 years in foreign policy domain ? there has to be some precedents in the past to assume that GoI will take an aggressive posture.

it can't be such a mystery that if such an official offer was made, it has not been recorded anywhere.

hambantota story starts in 2003.

read this... https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/china-to-build-another-port-in-sri-lanka/articleshow/6567958.cms port construction started in 2008, was completed in 2010, which means they were building during the war. pic from 2008

where are these notions of false bravado coming from?

when was it offered to GoI? and how could it have been offered when civil war was going on?

my view is : at the core, self-belief in India story across the board. everything else will fall in place.

No disagreement here. This is why foreign policy is a topic of interest for me. the moves, the counter moves, risk and reward, all playing out at the same time.

ideally yes. but my understanding is GoI relies on G2G relationship. GoI does not seem to have the capacity to cultivate groups, definitely not at the scale of U.S and China.