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Any such scenario where sri lanka becomes Chinese colony/ally will turn itself into a play thing between india china and US.

Remember that Diego Garcia is less than 2000 km from sri lanka.

Sri lanka's interests are served by playing india usa and china off each other.

Our and US interests are served by making sure sri lanka stays neutral.

Because we don't need sri lanka to project power into IOR as we have our peninsula, island territories, bases on less populated and farther off island nations in IOR
US is also in a similar position.

China on the other hand absolutely needs sri lanka to give up some sovereignty and bases etc.

We can and should use this and not let ourselves be guided by hubris.

Political Integration of Sri lanka doesn't offer much.
No gain in resources that we cant trade either.
We'll just import a new headache with secessionist tendencies.

Our focus should be economic and cultural integration.
We are much better situated than china in this regard.

And with time ie decades sri lanka and indian relationship will evolve where going against each other's interests will be costly for both and opposed by domestic population.

That should be the goal.
In future not far off. Sri Lanka might become part of India. I think it is inevitable given the political gravity of India. The tidal forces are too much to resist.
 

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In future not far off. Sri Lanka might become part of India. I think it is inevitable given the political gravity of India. The tidal forces are too much to resist.
Do Sri Lankans really hate/have negative opinion of India? Coz in that case I don’t want another Kashmir type scenario.
 

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Do Sri Lankans really hate/have negative opinion of India? Coz in that case I don’t want another Kashmir type scenario.
Yes. Sinhalese do. It stems from the Mahavansa mindset. Tamilnadu was our traditional enemy. So being amalgamated, India has become the next best thing to be called "The Enemy".

Support to the LTTE has also played it's part.
 

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You know guys. It's a f$cking disgrace. We have beaten the world's largest terra outfit. But even then we never had a situation like this. We thought we could beat anyone. Now look at us. Reduce to being beggers.
LTTE is a controversial topic both for Tamils and Sri Lankans, so no comments about that. But Prabhakaran and LTTE were terrorists and the Sri Lankan government committing genocide of Tamil Hindus was no different. Anyways is there any hope for it to end? And please enlighten us about the organic farming stuff going on sri lanka which is said to have caused all this food shortage.
 

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Yes. Sinhalese do. It stems from the Mahavansa mindset. Tamilnadu was our traditional enemy. So being amalgamated India has become the best thing to be called "The Enemy".

Support to the LTTE has also played it's part.
Are you Tamil?
 

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Yes. Sinhalese do. It stems from the Mahavansa mindset. Tamilnadu was our traditional enemy. So being amalgamated, India has become the next best thing to be called "The Enemy".

Support to the LTTE has also played it's part.
Many people dont know sinhalese are ancient people from coastal areas of Odisha and west bengal .
 

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