News reports have quoted the Chinese Embassy in Colombo about Sri Lanka participating in a China-hosted five-Nation multilateral virtual meet on COVID-19 management and post COVID-19 economic revival. It was the second such consultation among the ‘partners’ in...
Originally published in Colombo Gazette 2 November 2020
Leave aside the unilateral US rebuke of the UNHRC for voting in ‘authoritarian States’ into the 47-member Council, elected on rotation of sorts for two-year terms, in the case of Sri Lanka, the...
Given the trajectory of the China relations — Sri Lanka’s ‘India First’ policy will obviously be confined to bilateral security issues and New Delhi’s concerns in the matter.
The short-notice Colombo visit of a high-level Chinese delegation, to be followed...
