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[Butter Chicken]

SL sitting minister is foreign citizen

 

[karn]

Sri Lankan MP Rasamanickam warns of launching 'ChinaGoHome' campaign: Report

Tamil National Alliance (TNA) MP Rasamanickam has raised questions over the Chinese Embassy's involvement in matters raised in parliament.

www.aninews.in

 

[NutCracker]

Chinese spy ship returning again and again whenever India declares a NOTAM should officially paint it as military vassal ..

SL should get a$$ra##d if this ship docks in their territory.

 

[ezsasa]

what say boys, good for bad for SL?
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Sri Lanka to resume negotiations on stalled trade agreement with India

Sri Lanka to resume negotiations on stalled trade agreement with India

Sri Lanka will soon resume talks with India on the stalled Economic and Technological Cooperation Agreement (ETCA), authorities said, as Colombo looks to trade pacts and foreign direct investments to rebuild its crisis-hit economy

www.adaderana.lk

 

[Cheepek]

what say boys, good for bad for SL?
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Sri Lanka to resume negotiations on stalled trade agreement with India

Sri Lanka to resume negotiations on stalled trade agreement with India

Sri Lanka will soon resume talks with India on the stalled Economic and Technological Cooperation Agreement (ETCA), authorities said, as Colombo looks to trade pacts and foreign direct investments to rebuild its crisis-hit economy

www.adaderana.lk

Looks like Wikremesinghe is monkey balancing again, China has been forcing SL to sign a FTA

 

[Jimih]

what say boys, good for bad for SL?
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Sri Lanka to resume negotiations on stalled trade agreement with India

They have no choice now as their economy is under massive contraction.

India will have some control on their economy with this agreement.

 

[karn]

India will have some control on their economy with this agreement.

How tho ?

 

[NutCracker]

How tho ?

Dependency..

Become sole supplier of essential import commodities/services of Sri Lanka.

 

[Jimih]

How tho ?

India is one of the Two top sources of imports for Sri Lanka.

There is a huge asymmetry in trade with India, with this agreement it will only grow bigger.

 

[ezsasa]

They have no choice now as their economy is under massive contraction.

India will have some control on their economy with this agreement.

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 planting their own rubber tree estates.

ultimately their population is just 2 crores, nothing major in financial terms.

it's entirely upto SL on how they want to proceed.

 

[Jimih]

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.

If GoI was smart enough than they would have leveraged it in terms of military projection and national security in the IOR with respect to China, but alas!

Soft Power should be backed up by Hard Power, but again we are too Softies and Vision-Impaired.

 

[kharabela]

Regional trade and connectivity is important for a big nation . Was surprised to see the economic linkage between China and Taiwan some times back . Nothing much can be done with respect to SAARC . Its a dead project because there is a country which believes in Ghazwa e hind , kashmir jugular vain , Afghanistan strategic depth and shit ..

We have BIMSTEC . Bangladesh , myanmar , srilanka , thailand , india , nepal , bhutan . This should be our instrument for regional economic connectivity . May be some indian ocean countries like maldives , seychelles and other SE countries connected to thailand can be seen as future partners .

 

[Suryavanshi]

Regional trade and connectivity is important for a big nation . Was surprised to see the economic linkage between China and Taiwan some times back . Nothing much can be done with respect to SAARC . Its a dead project because there is a country which believes in Ghazwa e hind , kashmir jugular vain , Afghanistan strategic depth and shit ..

We have BIMSTEC . Bangladesh , myanmar , srilanka , thhailand , india , nepal , bhutan . This should be our instrument for regional economic connectivity . May be some indian ocean countries like maldives , seychelles and other SE countries connected to thailand can be seen as future partners .

Our closest parter is Myanmar but we couldn't harness their presences dur to our fucked up ideology and short sightedness.
Stability in Myanmar is directly linked to the Stability of NE, yet we show no inclination or resolve.
We could be receiving the Gas that China is receiving from 1500 km away.
As a country Myanmar shares our value, they could be part of whatever we envision.

 

[Jimih]

Our closest parter is Myanmar but we couldn't harness their presences dur to our fucked up ideology and short sightedness.
Stability in Myanmar is directly linked to the Stability of NE, yet we show no inclination or resolve.

As a country Myanmar shares our value, they could be part of whatever we envision.

Too much pressure from US State Dept.

India should always keep it doors open for Myanmar, whether it is Military Junta or Civilian govt running the country.

Under pressure from US only we are not engaging with Myanmar after the military takeover of the country. So advantage is China.

 

[Blademaster]

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 planting their own rubber tree estates.

ultimately their population is just 2 crores, nothing major in financial terms.

it's entirely upto SL on how they want to proceed.

All we want is the Sri Lanka not to host any Chinese or Pakistani subs or naval ships or be used as a staging ground for any foreign power in any conflict. That's it. But Sri Lankans are too dumb to realize that.

 

[karn]

Too much pressure from US State Dept.

India should always keep it doors open for Myanmar, whether it is Military Junta or Civilian govt running the country.

Under pressure from US only we are not engaging with Myanmar after the military takeover of the country. So advantage is China.

No .. that project failed because it has to go through bangladesh and we were stuck haggling with them . Then we tried making pipeline go via the Siliguri corridor but that timeline was unacceptable to the Burmese.

 

[Knowitall]

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 planting their own rubber tree estates.

ultimately their population is just 2 crores, nothing major in financial terms.

it's entirely upto SL on how they want to proceed.

I wonder if this same mindset exists wrt pakistan.

That is pakistan is a better alternative than whatever will come out of the chaos it it collapses and thus we would rather not work overtly to push them off the edge.

 

[Jimih]

International trade in INR and not in Yuan for Sri Lanka

 

[The Juggernaut]

International trade in INR and not in Yuan for Sri Lanka

We should make thread about Use of adoption INR internationally, Very soon India will be free from compulsion to use dollar for 70% of its trade.

 

[Ayushraj]

During my visit in tamil nadu few days before posters of prabhakaran was very common but most of people Were busy in their own life but i dont know about politicians
Anyone from tamil nadu can answer my doubt?