A permanent P L A presence in the Indian Ocean is a source of concern to the India . China is expanding its presence in Sri Lanka,Sri Lanka has excluded India from its policy agenda. For example , it reversed its decision by cancelling a trilateral agreement made in 2019 between India, Japan, and Sri Lanka for the collaborative development of the Colombo Eastern Container Terminal. which was very certainly planned by China, However Sri Lanka offered India the West Container Terminal for development in lieu, Second , on May 19, 2021, the Sri Lankan Parliament enacted the Colombo Port City Economic Commission Bill.
With no monitoring from the Sri Lankan government, China would receive an extra 269 hectares of reclaimed oceanfront outside the Colombo port in the country’s south-west if the Bill becomes an Act.India’s security stands threatened if the Chinese make further inroads into the island nation. This must be prevented However, both India and Sri Lanka are attempting to repair their ties.Perhaps the immediate help offered by India in the aftermath of the container ship X-Press Pearl, carrying 25 tonnes of nitric acid, catching fire off the coast of Colombo on May 19, must have served as a wake-up call to President Gotabaya Rajapaksa regarding the importance of friendly relations with India. And , Recently , Sri Lanka rejects Chinese fertiliser and imports Nano Nitrogen liquid fertiliser from India,” reflect the island nation’s rising frustration with China’s increasingly belligerent behaviour.
The news article mentioned a bad deal on organic fertiliser imported from China last August ,from the company named Qingdao Seawin Biotech Group which had signed a contract for the supply of 96,000 tonnes of organic fertiliser and 3,000 tonnes of organic fertiliser powder. The Department of Agriculture discovered many hazardous bacterial species in the imported cargo after testing it.
