{"id":121040,"date":"2021-12-09T18:08:19","date_gmt":"2021-12-10T01:08:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=121040"},"modified":"2021-12-09T18:08:19","modified_gmt":"2021-12-10T01:08:19","slug":"how-does-sino-indian-conflict-negatively-influence-on-economic-development-in-sri-lanka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2021\/12\/09\/how-does-sino-indian-conflict-negatively-influence-on-economic-development-in-sri-lanka\/","title":{"rendered":"HOW DOES SINO- INDIAN CONFLICT NEGATIVELY INFLUENCE ON ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN SRI LANKA"},"content":{"rendered":"

BY EDWARD THEOPHILUS<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n

The\nconflict between India and China had not been reported in extended history as\nwe understood, and it recorded in the current era after the independence in\n1947, why was an unending conflict originated was also a difficult question to answer,\nand whether it will be ended soon or later is a vital matter for both countries.\nThe experience of the international arena since the cold war provoked the\nrelationship between India and China. Many analysts doubt the reason for the antagonism\nand contributory factors to originate between the two countries. Outsiders of the\nSino-Indian region could read that the Tibet uprising and granting asylum to Dalai\nLama by India would have originated the difference between the two countries.\nWhat was the major reason to grant political asylum to Dalai Lama by India was\na complicated issue that should be critically analysed by interested personnel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dalai\nLama was a spiritual leader of Tibet Buddhism, and China has refused to accept\nthe leadership of Dalai Lama, whose policies are related to religion and\npolitical administration. The communist policies of China may have contradicted\nthe philosophy of Dalai Lama and the international operations of Dalai Lama\nshow he is the peaceful and attractive orator who talks about secular matters\nattractive way and indirectly he does international politics against China.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

When\nthe conflict was cradled, the answer to the question showed simple, howbeit was\nentrained after 1959, and why it has been continuing is a tough question to\nanswer, but from the point of view of the Sino side it is not a simple matter.\nMany international power blocs are reluctant to talk about the issue and policies\nimplemented, showing that they don\u2019t know about the issue. The common practice\nis when a conflict incurred between two countries, the UNO intervene and come\nto an agreement between two countries and settle the problem, however, when the\noriginal armed conflict incurred in 1962, China was not a member of the UNO and\nit could assume that the situation existed may have contributed to a long-term\nproblem between the two countries. After entering China to the UNO and gaining\nVETO power, the problem should have been solved as the conflict concerned with\nmany surrounding countries.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

According\nto published literature, there were no strong hints to explain the difference\nbetween China and India. China followed communism that had not been strong\nrespect for religious philosophies and it would have been the influential\nfactor for continuing the problem. The international power blocs may have been\nindirectly influencing both sides. The recorded history about conflicts between\nChina and India suggested that a lack of international authority with the\nmembership of the UN would have the biggest weakness to continue the problem.\nThere might exist written documents concerning the problem, but researchers had\nno opportunities to read them. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\nis possible to assume that China and India had maintained peace between the two\ncountries despite conflicts that would have incurred and not been recorded for\nhistorians\u2019 analysis in later periods. During the early Communist era, the disagreement\nhad and Russia was with the side of India and supplied weapons to it, disregarding\nthe philosophical unity between Russia and China. India was a market for\nweapons in Russia and the relationship was used to gain weapons by India.\nPeople in the region know that Russia advised India to play a police role in\nthe Indian ocean despite the proposal of a Peace Zone by Sri Lanka. When\nlaterally thinking the uniting of South Indian, China and Russia would be an\nexcellent market for international trade and political differences between\nthese countries have prevented the opportunity.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

When\nlogically thinking, it is easy to assume that the conflict between India and\nChina is a hegemony-related problem than any other. The south Indian region was\na united country with India, and the hegemony of India was challenged by\nChinese actions that were a displeased matter to India. The best lesson to be\nlearned by Sri Lanka is when a small country has no economic power, that\ncountry cannot go over the power giants and needs to learn how to live\npeacefully like small countries around Russia. The best example was given by Mr.J.R.Jayawardane,\nthe Indo-Lanka agreement in 1987 was a way of learning to live without surrendering\nto India. International analysts showed that after the July riots in 1983 Ms.Indira\nGandhi wanted to take over Sri Lanka, notwithstanding the intention of Ms.Gandhi,\nher advisors found India cannot find a regime to control the country despite\nthe intention there a population of over 90% of Sri Lanka which was against the\nIndian intention.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Potential\nconflict between China and India was prevented by the British government during\nthe colonial era, as many analysts assumed, the British government did not want\nto engage in a war with China, and such conflicts would have badly affected the\nrelationship between China and UK. The British administration before the\nindependence in 1947 did not promote anti-Chinese attitudes in the colony in\nsupport of Indian people and the UK had a concern about Hong Kong which was a\npart of China. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The\nUK was a small country with a lower population, and China was a large country\nwith massive human resources. The other vital aspect that should keep in mind\nis that the British government did not want to take its war with China on\naccount of a colony\u2019s problem.  The\ncolonial history indicates that colonial countries had been acquired by the UK\nby tactical agreements rather than embarking on expensive wars. For example,\nthe Kandyan Kingdom of Sri Lanka had been acquired by giving up armed struggle\nand manipulating the Kandyan Convention, which was written in an unknown\nlanguage to Sinhalese.  The attitudes of Indians\nand Chinese were nonidentical and associated with the human culture of the\nareas located. In this situation, it is quite possible to assume that Sino-Indian\nconflicts were eluded by British rule.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The\nrole played by India after the independence led to a severe conflict based on the\ndemarcation between the two countries and early 1960s, there was an armed conflict\nbetween India and China. The war generated considerable damage to India. Sri\nLanka intervened on behalf of both countries to cease the armed struggle, but\nit did not create a long-term wave of peace between the two countries. However,\nthe intervention of Sri Lanka halting the armed struggle between India and\nChina was a historical gesture between India and China, as well as a reflection\nof the neutral international relationship of Sri Lanka with neighbouring\ncountries. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Economic\nactivities of China have been positively changed and promoted by Western\nnations as the administration Deng Shia-o Peng helped the Western countries to\nexpand the market and China to change the attitudes about market economic\nsystem becoming the most favoured Nation of the USA during the regime of Bill Clinton,\nbased on many reasons that were economic and security related. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sri\nLanka has become a victim of the Sino-Indian conflict and has been in a\ndifficult situation developing economic policies. Sri Lanka needs quick\nattention to the foreign exchange shortage problem. In addition, Sri Lanka\nneeds to attract foreign direct investment and supports for product quality\nimprovement. For these two areas, Chinese supports are crucial and Indian\nattitudes show it wants to take over current Sri Lanka\u2019s successful development\nprograms and some analysts question the investments of Adani are helping Sri\nLanka or an attempt to maintain Indian hegemony over Sri Lanka. When the\npolicymakers associate with Chinese and Indian investors, they have critical\nabilities to negotiate what Sri Lanka expects. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

China\nwas an influential country and has trillions of GDP, of which a small portion could\nspend as economic aids which are not grants but support for generating foreign\nexchange, employment, and much economic support to Sri Lanka. After the Korean War\nin the 1950s, China supported Sri Lanka through the Rice-Rubber pact, the\neconomic impact of the pact was tremendous and economic advisors supported by\nthe Western nations (Prof Dudley Seers) criticised the pact presenting a market-related\nargument stating that Sri Lanka could have purchased rice at a lower price and\nsell rubber at a higher price in the open market if there wasn\u2019t pact between\nSri Lanka and China. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

After\nthe Rice-Rubber Pact, China helped Sri Lanka frequently, India objected to\nthese Chinese bits of help, and frequently, India objected to Chinese supports other\ncountries such as Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Nepal. The major argument of India\nwas the Chinese aids would threaten the security of India, but how foreign aids\nwould denounce the security of India has not been clearly explained. Chinese\nsupports to these South Asian countries does not promote taking weapons against\nIndia and most probably it restricts the marketability of Indian goods and\nservices. Truly, it is an economic threat, but not a security threat. The\neconomic relationship between Western countries and China also may be a threat to\nIndia, but it is not expressed because it might be a joke among educated\npeople.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

When\nthe Finance Minister, Mr. Basil Rajapaksa visited recently India, it has\nreported that India agreed support Sri Lanka to purchase Indian products and\nthe credit facilities could be used only to purchase goods and services of\nIndian origin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hegemony\nis in this world since the beginning and neither Sri Lanka nor India nor China\ncould stop hegemony that should not use for economic activities of people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

BY EDWARD THEOPHILUS The conflict between India and China had not been reported in extended history as we understood, and it recorded in the current era after the independence in 1947, why was an unending conflict originated was also a difficult question to answer, and whether it will be ended soon or later is a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-edward-theophilus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121040\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}