Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka’s youth in revolt, demand system change
By Lasanda Kurukulasuriya
The ongoing anti-government protests taking place in Sri Lanka today are extraordinary, and unlike anything this country has seen before. Protests that...
Global food crisis fuels international class struggle
By Eric London
@EricLondonSEP
Apr 2, 2022
The war between the US-NATO and Russia in Ukraine has lit a fuse to the powder keg of the global...
Putin welcomes granting SCO dialogue partner status to three countries
According to Putin, "a fairly impressive portfolio of applications from other states wishing to cooperate with the organization in one capacity or another" requires...
Amid pressures from Quad, China discusses military ties with Sri Lanka
By Lasanda Kurukulasuriya
With the Indian Ocean increasingly becoming a locus of big power contestation, the recent two-day visit to Sri Lanka by Chinese Defence...
US’s Indian Ocean proxy war: Sri Lanka, Maldives in the crosshairs
By Lasanda Kurukulasuriya
Apr.3, 2021
Maldivian parliamentarians have been up in arms since the government’s signing of a defence agreement with India in February which, according...
Sri Lanka’s ‘IndoPacific’ role revealed in secret US document?
By Lasanda Kurukulasuriya
The launch in Colombo of a Trilateral Maritime Security Secretariat, for cooperation between Sri Lanka, India and the Maldives, merits closer scrutiny....
Amit Shah has plans to form BJP governments in Sri Lanka,...
February 15, 202
Tripura Chief Minister Biplab Deb has revealed how Home Minister Amit Shah once told him about his plans to expand BJP to...
Old hatreds fuel online misinformation about COVID-19 in South Asia
By Kamya Yadav, Isra Thange,
Julia Ilhardt, Samikshya Siwakoti, Jacob N. Shapiro
November 25, 2020
photo: Credit: ChocolateLr18. CC BY-SA 4.0.
Since COVID-19 spread to South Asia,...
US-Sri Lanka military alliance in the wake of Pompeo visit
By Tamara KUNANAYAKAM
November 2, 2020
In fact, a military alliance between the US and Sri Lanka already exists. By signing ACSA in 2007, and renewing...
Pompeo Concludes China Bashing Tour of Asia in Vietnam
Pompeo also visited India, Sri Lanka, the Maldives, and Indonesia
Posted on October 30, 2020
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo took the Trump administration’s anti-China...