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Despite deep ties, India’s relations with Sri Lanka have seen strains due to China’s growing influence in Sri Lanka through investments and economic dominance. Analyse.

  • UPSC 2024
  • 10 marks
  • India and South Asia

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India and Sri Lanka share Buddhist heritage, Tamil kinship and a 1987 Accord whose exchange of letters barred foreign military use of Sri Lankan ports prejudicial to India. China's rise as financier after 2005 has strained this relationship. Yet the strain comes less from Chinese economic dominance, which is overstated, than from the security uses…

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  • Sources of strain
  • Why "economic dominance" is overstated
  • How 2022 shifted the balance
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