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After Gotabaya Rajapaksa became president in 2019, the media reported that he had summoned the head of US Aid in Sri Lanka and asked if they were funding an anti-government social media campaign. Gotabaya summoned the head of the US...

Anura Kumara and the NPP government seem to be talking about the China visit with more fanfare than Anura’s India visit. The NPP government seems to be trying to portray the Hambantota Oil Refinery as an achievement during Anura’s China...

Previous week the cabinet approved the signing of an MOU with China's Xinhua News Agency for the state-run media outlet in Sri Lanka, before Anura visited China. Diplomatic corps in Colombo raised eyebrows on this. Xinhua News Agency is a...

After the signing of the Indo-Lanka Accord in 1987, successive Sri Lankan heads of state visiting India consistently assured Indian prime ministers that the 13th Amendment would be fully implemented. These assurances were reiterated in joint statements issued by the...

During Anura Kumara's visit to India, Qin Boyong, Vice President of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, arrived in Sri Lanka. While Anura was in India, Qin met with government ministers and monitored Anura's activities in India. Meanwhile, in Anura's...

Traditionally the first visit of a Nepalese prime minister is to India. However, the recently elected Nepalese Prime minister broke this tradition and chose China as his first visit. Maldivian tradition too is making the first visit to India but...

The Chinese ambassador had recently spoken with great joy about the victory of the JVP in the North. The Chinese ambassador had said that China was preparing to start relief projects for the people of the North but the politicians...

During the period of suppression of the JVP under the Premadasa government, most of the JVP politburo members were killed. The only survivor of this onslaught was Somawansa Amarasinghe, who fled Sri Lanka. He initially sought refuge in India and...

Within two months of Maithripala Sirisena assuming the presidency, the Chinese Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs visited Sri Lanka as a special envoy and met with President Sirisena. Similarly, within two months of Gotabaya Rajapaksa becoming president, China's Foreign Minister...

The revocation of the tourist ban in the Arugam Bay area by the United States, just a day before the general elections, became a prominent topic of discussion in Colombo's political circles. It was widely recognized that this last-minute decision...