Indian Ocean
Maïdan, bis repetita au Sri Lanka ?
par Jean-Pierre Page
Pour avoir vécu une quinzaine d'années au Sri Lanka, je pense connaître un peu ce pays dont Octave Mirbeau disait "qu'il était...
Au sujet du Sri Lanka
par Jean - Pierre Page
Cette mise au point que je veux faire ici ne saurait signifier de ma part un quelconque soutien au président...
NATO to Engage in Asia-Pacific to Counter China
Australia to work with NATO Strategic Command Centre on disinformation
By Victoria Kelly-Clark*
Apr. 7, 2022
The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) has announced that it will...
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...
India Joins French-led Military Drills in the Bay of Bengal, Escalating...
India and its Quad partners are drilling with France in the Bay of Bengal
Posted on April 4, 2021
Categories India is joining its fellow Quad...
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....
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...
Can Sri Lanka be ‘neutral’ with an ‘India first’ policy?
By Lasanda Kurukulasuriya
In several interviews after his recent appointment as Secretary to the Foreign Ministry, Adm. (Retd.) Jayanath Colombage has sought to explain the...
US Rushed B-52 Bombers to Diego Garcia Amid January Iran Tensions
Deployments continued through end of March
Posted on April 6, 2020
US B-52 bombers were quickly deployed to Diego Garcia back in January during mounting tensions...