Islamabad: Prof Swaran Singh from the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, has said that the democratic and demographic dividend of South Asia was under threat from the coronavirus and supported.
Islamabad:Prof Swaran Singh from the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, has said that the democratic and demographic dividend of South Asia was under threat from the coronavirus and supported.
Islamabad
January 23, 2021
Islamabad:Sri Lankan political columnist and author Assanga Abeya-Goonasekera has said that the competition in the Indian Ocean region does not necessarily present binary options for Sri Lanka.
Mr Goonasekera was speaking at a virtual conference on ‘Sri Lanka and the competing gunboat diplomacies around: Options and challenges’ organised by the Institute of Regional Studies (IRS).
Expressing concern over the influence of one of the competing rivals getting out of balance with regard to the others, Mr Goonasekera called for finding a balance in Sri Lankan relations with China, India and US. Citing an example of such an imbalance, he referred to the incident in which Chinese submarines came to the shores of Colombo, which became a serious issue in India-Sri Lanka relations.