A look at developments in the stronghold of Mahinda Rajapaksa’s southern region of Hambantota.

Is China's Belt and Road Initiative running into growing pains?

Anxiety over China’s growing maritime influence drives Japanese, Indian, and U.S. interests in Sri Lanka's ports.

Belt and Road is not the Marshall Plan: it’s comprised of loans, not grants, and China expects a return for its money.

India can finance infrastructure projects through the AIIB and remain critical of China's Belt and Road Initiative.

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

Colombo’s attempt to balance India and China has proved futile.

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

Colombo is realizing the unintended strategic consequences of closer ties with Beijing.

A closer look at the hidden dangers CPEC could bring for Pakistan.

Chinese military installations in the Indian Ocean are still a possibility, not a certainty.

What Indian and Chinese positions on their “blue-water” status says about strategy in the IOR.

India has ceded influence in Sri Lanka to China. Could the upcoming election change that?

For the country’s working and middle classes, the Hambantota port development will have important consequences.