When India miffed at Colombo for allowing PLA satellite tracker ship

A class-guided missile destroyer with Type 071 Landing Platform Dock (LPD) is also transiting the Indian Ocean and headed towards the Chinese base in Djibouti on the eastern seaboard of Africa. Lankan President with Chinese President Xi cloak of a research and survey vessel, a Chinese Space and Satellite Tracking ship Yuan Wang 5 is headed towards China leased the port of in Sri Lanka on August 11 despite serious objections from Indian Navy guided-missile destroyer with Type 071 Landing Platform Dock (LPD) is also transiting the Indian Ocean and headed towards the Chinese base in Djibouti on the eastern seaboard of Africa. Sri Lanka regime under Wickremesinghe has given approval to satellite tracker military ship Yuan Wang 5 to dock from August 11 to 17 for refueling, rest and recreation, and supplies. Incidentally, the Port was given to China for a 99-year lease in 2017 as Prime Minister Lanka allows the Chinese ship entry into the port after Beijing’s envoy to Colombo muscled his way around with the regime and made it clear that the denial of permission would have an impact on bilateral ties. Navy raising objections to the docking of the military surveillance ship, Lankan Cabinet Spokesperson on August 2 went on record stating the strategic surveillance ship was only coming to refuel cabinet that diplomatic efforts will be made to work with both the countries not create any issues said spokesman the used by Colombo to justify the entry of the Chinese ship into, is that Sri Lanka owes more than 10 percent of its external debt to China as it burrowed money at high-interest rates from Chinese Bank to fund white elephant projects like port and international airport. Simply put, Sri Lanka cannot afford to annoy China as Colombo like Islamabad is a brand ambassador of the Belt Road Initiative (BRI) of President Xi Jinping., on its part, has not taken kindly to this move by Sri Lanka as the military ship is also involved in ocean mapping, which is critical to anti-submarine operations by the Chinese PLA Navy. The virtual rebuff to India comes at a time when the government has gone out of its way to support Sri Lanka during the ongoing economic crisis by doling out more than USD 3.5 billion for buying food, fuel, and cooking gas supplies. Does Congress have BJP, 5 lakh for Congress is holding nationwide protests on price hikes and inflation darkness in the “Emergency” era when the nation was being ruled by the Congress, the BJP's Ravi Shankar Prasad said on Friday, shortly after Rahul Gandhi concluded a presser where he carried out a no-holds-barred attack on Gandhi's presser came amid a pan-India protest by his party on after his press briefing, senior BJP leader RS Prasad gave a point-by-point rebuttal on the Congress’s attacks, as he said that the rival party’s massive demonstrations - amid a probe by the Enforcement Directorate in the National Herald case - was meant to intimidate the central probe agencies.“Rahul Gandhi's grandmother imposed an emergency in the country. During the Emergency, big journalists were sent to jail. Rahul Gandhi's grandmother spoke of a committed judiciary. Do you remember anything? You give us the advice of democracy. Is there democracy in your party?” the BJP MP said, dismissing Rahul’s charge that “India is witnessing the death of democracy” also alleged that during the takeover of the National Herald newspaper, assets worth ₹5,000 crores were claimed for ₹5 lakh. The National Herald case pertains to the alleged "Rahul Gandhi has told a clear lie today. When the discussion was held in the House two days ago, did the people of Congress participate in it or not? The discussion of inflation and unemployment is an excuse. The reason (for today's protests) is to scare the ED, threaten and save the family inflation is discussed, but Rahul Gandhi does not come into the discussion and walks out of the house. Sitharaman replied in detail in the house that despite Covid, India's economy is better than many countries of the world," he said.