The tentative reconciliation process
A fast-unto-death protest started by five undergraduates of the Jaffna University came to an end soon after Vice Chancellor of…
Pushing Muslims towards militancy?
The government is forcibly cremating Muslims who die of covid-19Outside a hospital in southern Sri Lanka on December 22nd, a…
A bone of contention
With a capacity of 7.2 million TEUs, an annual cargo tonnage of nearly 40 million tons, and a dredged depth…
The need to build relationships
THE loss of the $480 million grant opportunity provided to Sri Lanka by the Millennium Challenge Corporation has been on…
The new Cold War in the Indo-Pacific theatre
At present, albeit in a different context, there is another westward strategy from the Eastern Pacific theatre. It is that…
Is the Trump China Policy working?
The United States Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo recently embarked on a five nation Asia tour to India, Sri Lanka,…
Geopolitics in the Indo-Pacific
The term Indopazifischer Raum (Indo-Pacific Space) coined by German geopolitical thinker Karl Haushofer in 1920, is perhaps the first academic statement on…
Neither successful nor diplomatic
A sly strategy of the Ambassador of the United States has been successful. That’s diplomacy. Well-experienced diplomat, as the US…
Propaganda plays a central role
Have China’s efforts to regain its loss of credibility in the wake of its clumsy handling of the information on…
How far can India go on the Tamil question?
After the Rajapaksas’ win in the November 2019 presidential polls and the August 2020 general election, the spotlight has fallen…