India Tit-for-Tat with China
India, US and EU were highly concern on the Chinese maritime involvement in Sri Lanka. China built massive deep sea harbor in south of Sri Lanka, Hambantota, and commenced building mixed-used development called Port-city in Sri Lanka and support to develop many other small scale harbors around the Island. While other nations such as US, EU, and even India not giving meaningful support or aids for development of war waged Sri Lanka are playing geopolitics to sideline the China and Pakistan from the Sri Lankan picture. Docking of to two submarines was a critical turning point of this whole story. With this backdrop, internationally crafted conspiracy leads to change the Rajapaksa government through the LTTE Tamil terrorists and with other minority’s backed by pro-federalist Ranil and his party UNP
In the ongoing strategic power-play in the Indian Ocean Region (IOR) by India to capture the regional power among the small nation to control Pakistan and China, two frontline Indian warships, including aircraft carrier INS Vikramaditya, entered Colombo just after three Chinese warships left the Sri Lankan port on Thursday.
INS Vikramaditya and guided-missile destroyer INS Mysore, under the command of the western fleet to be docked at Colombo till Saturday to further bolster the ongoing military cooperation with the island nation and gain the control over China.
The 45,400-tonne INS Vikramaditya, or the refurbished Admiral Gorshkov inducted in November 2013 under a $2.33 billion deal with Russia, is India’s largest and most powerful ship. With the 45 MiG-29Ks ordered for another $2 billion to operate from its deck, the carrier is also the costliest single weapon platform India has ever bought.
Indian security establishments are concerning over China’s growing naval forays into the IOR, including the docking of its submarines in Colombo during Rajapkasa government. India is also belatedly trying to counter China’s deep maritime links with Sri Lanka and other countries in the Indian Ocean like Seychelles, Mauritius, Maldives, Bangladesh and Myanmar.
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