{"id":128030,"date":"2022-08-20T16:44:18","date_gmt":"2022-08-20T23:44:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=128030"},"modified":"2022-08-20T16:44:18","modified_gmt":"2022-08-20T23:44:18","slug":"on-china-connection-lanka-minister-says-india-understands-its-situation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2022\/08\/20\/on-china-connection-lanka-minister-says-india-understands-its-situation\/","title":{"rendered":"On China connection, Lanka minister says India understands its situation"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy The Indian Express<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Indian authorities have expressed worries about the ship\u2019s snooping capability.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Amid concerns over a visit by Chinese ship Yuan Wang 5 to his country, visiting Sri Lankan Tourism Minister Harin Fernando on Saturday said that he hoped it would not cause a major diplomatic row, as India understands\u201d its situation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Indian authorities have expressed worries about the ship\u2019s snooping capability.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sri Lanka is friends with everyone and I am sure India understands it,\u201d Fernando said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We have had a very good diplomatic relationship with India. I think they (India) understand the situation. We have lots of investment from the Chinese in Sri Lanka and they have also been quite understanding of our requirements\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On a visit to\u00a0<a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/section\/cities\/ahmedabad\/\">Ahmedabad<\/a>, Fernando said Sri Lanka is looking at Indian investments in ports and shipping, power and energy, leisure sector, wellness and aviation sectors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy The Indian Express Indian authorities have expressed worries about the ship\u2019s snooping capability. Amid concerns over a visit by Chinese ship Yuan Wang 5 to his country, visiting Sri Lankan Tourism Minister Harin Fernando on Saturday said that he hoped it would not cause a major diplomatic row, as India understands\u201d its situation. Indian [&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-128030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128030","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=128030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128030\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}