New Delhi: The red flag rises in India for Chinese new efforts to expand their tracks in North Sri Lanka in Garb infrastructure projects, with Beijing even trying to seduce the Tamil ethnic community there.
China, which has made a deep strategic breakthrough to Sri Lanka through its predatory debt policy, is now diligently working to build its presence in the island state as close as possible by Indian beach, say sources in the establishment of Indian security.
“The proliferation of Chinese economic activities and the proposed infrastructure development projects in the North Province of Sri Lanka, which can be exploited for strategic reasons, of course the problem for India,” said a source.
Previously, most Chinese projects were limited to Sri Lanka southern.
“But the Government of Gotabaya Rajapaksa now facilitates several Chinese businesses in North Sri Lanka as well, often ignoring the sentiments of Tamil residents there.
We are very monitoring developments,” he added.
India has protested Sri Lanka’s decision to provide a $ 12 million solar wind and hybrid project to the Chinese Sinosar-Etechwin joint venture on three islands of Jaff Peninsula in February this year.
With the island which is almost 50 km from Tamil Nadu Beach, India has switched with a $ 12 million grant to Sri Lanka to be executed by the project.
“Other Chinese joint ventures have been given land in a coastal village in North Sri Lanka for a farming cucumber fish even though protests by local farmers.
Some such breakthroughs in this region are being observed,” another source said.
India, of course, continues to be upset with Sri Lanka to return to the tripartite agreement to jointly develop the East Container Terminal in Port Colombo with Japan.
Then there is also a difference in fester in the oil tank agricultural project in Trincomalee.
But it has eliminated sailing for China in the island country, from a rental of 99 years from the port of Hambantota to the new Colombo Port City project.
Apart from Sri Lanka, China has systematically spread its wings throughout the Indian Ocean (IOR) region by establishing maritime relations with Seychelles, Mauritius, Maldives, Bangladesh, Myanmar and East Africa countries, among others.