{"id":142029,"date":"2024-05-20T15:03:05","date_gmt":"2024-05-20T22:03:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=142029"},"modified":"2024-05-20T15:03:05","modified_gmt":"2024-05-20T22:03:05","slug":"india-sees-a-chance-to-make-sri-lanka-a-virtual-province-amid-its-rivalry-with-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2024\/05\/20\/india-sees-a-chance-to-make-sri-lanka-a-virtual-province-amid-its-rivalry-with-china\/","title":{"rendered":"India sees a chance to make Sri Lanka \u2018a virtual province\u2019 amid its rivalry with China"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><a class=\"article-author__name-link\" style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/author\/dimuthu-attanayake\" target=\"_self\" data-v-8349ec64=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">Dimuthu Attanayake \u00a0<\/a>Courtesy The South China Morning Post<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Indian companies have made a flurry of business deals with Sri Lanka since the struggling island nation declared bankruptcy in 2022<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>A new lease on a Chinese-financed airport shows New Delhi is gaining the upper hand over Beijing in their rivalry to woo Colombo, analysts say<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/topics\/india?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\">India<\/a>\u00a0is set to wield greater influence in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/topics\/sri-lanka?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\">Sri Lanka<\/a>\u00a0as its companies flock to sign deals with the heavily indebted island nation in sectors ranging from energy to maritime logistics, even as some analysts question their commercial viability.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Among the recent high-profile deals involving Indian companies was a 20-year power purchase agreement with Adani Green Energy, a subsidiary of India\u2019s Adani Group, announced by Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe earlier this month.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dimuthu Attanayake \u00a0Courtesy The South China Morning Post<\/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-142029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142029","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=142029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142029\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}