INTERNATIONAL FRAME & STRUGGLE for Tamil Eelam: china 'China, a benign and sincere friend of Sri Lanka' - Sri Lanka Foreign Minister Lakshman Kadirgamar, 9 April 2005
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China undertakes construction of Hambantota Port, 11 April 2005 |
China's Submarine Base in Maldives? 8 May 2005 |
China, Sri Lanka Joint Communique, September 2005 |
From "China fear" to "China fever", February 2006 |
LTTE Attacks Galle Naval Base & US Cancels Joint Naval Exercise with Sri Lanka, 18 -20 October 2006 |
US - India - China - Sri Lanka - Pakistan: Matrix - Rahul Bedi, 25 October 2006 |
Another U.S. base in the Indian Ocean? - Acquisition and Cross-Servicing Agreement & the Indo Sri Lanka Accord 9 March 2007 |
Sri Lanka President Mahinda Rajapakse leaves for China , February 2007 |
China moves into India's back yard -Sudha Ramachandran in Asia Times, 13 March 2007 |
China's Oil Quest Across India's Cauvery Basin - B. Raman 26 March 2007 "China's oil quest is set to reach the Mannar area of Sri Lanka adjoining the likely oil/gas bearing Cauvery basin of South India. A Chinese energy foothold in this key area has been facilitated by the Government of President Mahinda Rajapakse to balance an Indian presence in this area. "
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Chinese Defence Policy: Building International Stability - Lt Gen Zhang Qinsheng, Deputy Chief of the General Staff, People's Republic of China - Speech from English transcript at 6th International Institute For Strategic Studies (IISS), Shangri-La Dialogue Singapore, Saturday 2-4 June 2007 |
"China must lead the resistance to the Western intention to create an Israel in South Asia" Comrade Wimal Weerawansa, JVP - 5 June 2007 |
Boosting Maritime Capabilities in the Indian Ocean, Dipanjan Roy Chaudhury, New Delhi, India, 23 August 2007 " Recently, Sri Lanka allocated an exploration block in the Mannar Basin to China for petroleum exploration. This allocation would connote a Chinese presence just a few miles from India's southern tip, thus causing strategic discomfort. In economic terms, it could also mean the end of the monopoly held by Indian oil companies in this realm, putting them into direct and stiff competition from Chinese oil companies....It is Sri Lanka's strategic location that has prompted Beijing to aim for a strategic relationship with Colombo..."
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50 years Ties between China - Sri Lanka Commemorated, 27 September 2007 |
US should help defeat LTTE - Comrade Wimal Weerawansa, JVP to US Amabassador, 2 October 2007 |
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