{"id":127493,"date":"2022-07-30T15:56:23","date_gmt":"2022-07-30T22:56:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=127493"},"modified":"2022-07-30T15:56:23","modified_gmt":"2022-07-30T22:56:23","slug":"chinese-ship-set-to-dock-in-sri-lanka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2022\/07\/30\/chinese-ship-set-to-dock-in-sri-lanka\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese ship set to dock in Sri Lanka"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><a class=\"auth-nm lnk\" style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/profile\/author\/Meera-Srinivasan-311\/\">Meera Srinivasan Courtesy The Hindu<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/theme\/images\/th-online\/1x1_spacer.png\" alt=\"Chinese vessel Yuan Wang 5. Photo: brisl.org\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/image-8-1024x585.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-127494\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Chinese vessel Yuan Wang 5. Photo: brisl.org<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">It is arriving for replenishment, says Colombo<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Days after&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/international\/sri-lanka-denies-chinese-ship-is-headed-for-hambantota\/article65695210.ece\">denying reports of the scheduled arrival of a Chinese research vessel<\/a>, and following India\u2019s clear message\u201d about carefully monitoring\u201d the development, Sri Lanka\u2019s Ministry of Defence on Saturday confirmed that the vessel had sought clearance to call at the southern Hambantota Port in August.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The vessel will be in Hambantota from August 11 to 17, mainly for replenishment, including fuel,\u201d Sri Lanka\u2019s Defence Ministry media spokesman Col. Nalin Herath said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Reports of the vessel \u2014 Yuan Wang 5 \u2014 involved in space and satellite tracking, came to New Delhi\u2019s notice earlier this week, when External Affairs Ministry spokesman Arindam Bagchi told the weekly media briefing that India carefully monitors any development having a bearing on its security and economic interests\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Soon after, China said it hopes that relevant parties\u201d would refrain from interfering with its legitimate maritime activities\u201d, news agency Reuters reported. The remark indicated that the Chinese vessel\u2019s arrival could potentially leave Colombo caught between New Delhi and Beijing\u2019s interests once again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While the Ministry of Defence in Colombo did not explain why it had earlier denied the vessel\u2019s arrival, Col. Herath said: Such vessels periodically come from various countries such as India, China, Japan, Australia. It is nothing unusual.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, geostrategic analysts are closely watching the development, given past tensions between Colombo and New Delhi, especially after Colombo allowed a Chinese nuclear-powered submarine Changzheng 2 to dock at its port in 2014.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meera Srinivasan Courtesy The Hindu Chinese vessel Yuan Wang 5. Photo: brisl.org It is arriving for replenishment, says Colombo Days after&nbsp;denying reports of the scheduled arrival of a Chinese research vessel, and following India\u2019s clear message\u201d about carefully monitoring\u201d the development, Sri Lanka\u2019s Ministry of Defence on Saturday confirmed that the vessel had sought clearance [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127493","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=127493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127493\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}