The Rajapaksas have more at stake than simply staying in power and retaining their wealth. There are also allegations of war crimes dating to at least 2005 that could follow them. Read More Here
Sri Lanka will have to endure its unprecedented economic hardships for at least two more years, the country’s finance minister said while warning of an imminent cash crunch. Read More Here
Despite the mass unrest and historically low popularity ratings, the Rajapaksas have so far refused to leave office. With enough legislators to resist impeachment and the tacit support of the military, the current leadership is unlikely to step down on anyone else’s terms. Read More Here
Facing Sri Lanka’s worst economic crisis, the Rajapaksa family’s appeals to national security and Sinhala Buddhist nationalism may no longer be enough to keep them in power. Read More Here
Anger is boiling over in Sri Lanka at the country’s worst economic crisis since independence in 1948, much of it directed at the island nation’s all-powerful ruling Rajapaksa family. Read More Here
India’s structural dominance in the region long fostered a sense of insecurity among these smaller states. The rise of China offered a new alternative to India’s position in the region. Sri Lanka and the Maldives have relatively quickly embraced a policy of strategic autonomy and diversification. Read More Here
Sri Lanka’s turn to China amid the island nation’s worst economic crisis in decades risks surrendering more long-term sovereignty in exchange for a short-term financial lifeline. Colombo’s slip into what many critics have characteriSed as a China “debt trap” could see Beijing deepen its strategic footprint in the Indian Ocean, significantly at a time the […]
Future generations will remember what the world did, or failed to do, in the face of South Asia’s devastating second wave of the virus. India and its neighbours desperately need more vaccines, oxygen, and other supplies, and it is in everyone else’s interest to provide them as fast as possible. Read Here | Project Syndicate
Since the return of the Rajapaksa brothers to office as president and prime minister in Sri Lanka, Colombo’s relations with China have improved dramatically. Earlier in the week, the Sri Lankan Parliament decided to postpone a debate on the controversial Colombo Port City Economic Commission Bill that was scheduled for the middle of the week. […]
Sri Lanka’s relationship with China has been a controversial discussion during the last decade, dominating both domestic and international political conversations… Yet it is quite clear that Sri Lanka’s closest neighbor, India, and the United States are diligently monitoring these developments in the China-Sri Lanka relationship. Read Here | The Diplomat
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