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If true, this more or less guarantees that Hambanthota won't be used by PLAN. Which means it's a looong voyage from Malacca to Djibouti. And other than SSBNs/SSNs, PLAN is largely marooned in the IOR, and chicom shipping lanes are at the mercy of USN (Diego Garcia) and IN. This would be a very big counterweight against chicom gandmasti in the South China Sea."Yuuge" if true