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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 |
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China's Submarine Base in Maldives?
8 May 2005 |
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China, Sri Lanka
Joint Communique, September 2005 |
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From "China
fear" to "China fever", February 2006 |
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LTTE Attacks Galle
Naval Base & US Cancels Joint Naval Exercise with Sri
Lanka, 18 -20 October 2006 |
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US
- India - China - Sri Lanka - Pakistan: Matrix - Rahul Bedi,
25 October 2006 |
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Another U.S. base in the Indian Ocean?
- Acquisition and Cross-Servicing Agreement &
the Indo Sri Lanka Accord, 9 March 2007 |
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Sri Lanka
President Mahinda Rajapakse leaves for China , February 2007 |
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China moves into India's back yard
-Sudha Ramachandran in
Asia Times, 13 March 2007 |
China to build
port in Sri Lanka, B.
Muralidhar Reddy . Hindu, 13 March 2007
COLOMBO:
China and Sri Lanka on Monday initialled an
agreement worth $360 million for the
construction of the Hambantota harbour in
the south.
The agreement
was signed by the representatives of the
China Harbour Engineering Company Limited
and the Sino Hydro Corporation Limited and
the Sri Lanka Ports Authority.
The pact is a
follow up to the recent visit of President
Mahinda Rajapaksa to Beijing. Eight
agreements including one for the development
of the Hambantota district zone were
concluded during the visit. "This is a large
scale investment project granted from the
Chinese Government as a direct and immediate
response to the President Mahinda
Rajapaksa's request made during the state
visit to China recently," said an official
statement.
It said Mr.
Rajapaksa had instructed deputy chairman of
the Sri Lanka Ports Authority Priyath Bandu
Wickrama to commence construction by June.
The Chinese government will fund 85 per cent
of the cost. The statement said the
Government had the environmental impact
assessment and the progress report. The port
has the potential to provide direct
employment to 6,000 persons and indirect
employment to 50,000. "
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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 |
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"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
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US should help defeat LTTE -
Comrade Wimal Weerawansa, JVP to US Amabassador, 2 October 2007 |
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China Film Festival opens in
Sri Lanka, 4 April 2008 |
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China hands over Galle Red Cross
complex to Sri Lanka, 6 April 2008 |
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