As geopolitical competition intensifies in the Indian Ocean, Sri Lanka’s best strategy is to stand for a rules-based order.

What is driving Sri Lanka's latest outreach to ASEAN member states?

What are the sources and impact of China's economic leverage over Sri Lanka?

In both Maldives and Sri Lanka, China has been chipping away at Indian influence.

Faced with difficult choices, Sri Lanka has to hope China’s Belt and Road can bring prosperity.

The deal assuaged some Indian concerns, but China's economic dominance over Sri Lanka is still a worry.

China's willingness to do business with dictators will undermine national interest in the long run.

At the Galle Dialogue, Sri Lanka tries to carve out a role for itself in the South Asian littorals.

The Colombo Port City project was conceived by Sri Lanka, but is now an almost 100 percent Chinese undertaking.

A discussion of Sri Lanka’s foreign policy under President Maithripala Sirisena

Sri Lanka will resume a major (and controversial) development project.

Plus, "two sessions," Caixin on censorship, mass incidents, and Xi's cult of personality. Friday China links.

Sri Lanka provides a glimpse of small power-great power relations in a future multipolar world order.

The country’s foreign policy has shifted significantly since the elections. Will that continue?

The changing fortunes for the two emerging global powers in Sri Lanka offer some interesting lessons.

President Sirisena's first state visit to China risks being overshadowed by the debate over Colombo Port City.