International Relations of Sri Lanka

I t is perilous time. So, the obvious also has to be stipulated.  The authority which is in-charge of an action or inaction and orders something to do or not to do shall be accountable for relevant actions or inactions taken. The authorities could react officially ignoring the issue at hand too . Each politician, bureaucrat and institution shall be accountable for the actions, inactions and ignorance within the scope of their relevant mandates. If cheap politicians are driven only by the votes, not by long term national interests, then the bureaucrats are there to preserve the interests of locals, which shall always align with the long term interests of nation. The strength of civil society and its organizations are measured upon the influence they possess on the politicians and the bureaucrats making them accountable upon when they evade their professional responsibilities aligned with the interest of people and nation. When politicians and the bureaucrats fail to adhere ...

N o pacifist idealism has ever created strong and proud nations. The perception that G Ganasara Thera is an extremist is written in many UN papers, BBC new reports and Aljazeera’s.  No denial that some minor part of Sinhala Buddhists too are thinking GG as an extremist. But most tolerate him and some aspire him. They all seems to understand that in a nation like ours, where no politician seems to be accountable for the electorate to protect their national interest, what is wrong with the good-old-age Buddhist valor to remind to others Sri Lanka’s Buddhists national identity and its national interest. The thing is that most critics of GG never seek out about the fact of the rout causes. Widespread fear of Muslim expansionism, deforestation of Wilpattu National Reserve and an attempt to clear off an area in Kulamarippu National Forest Reserve by Rishard Badurdeen, Muslim parliamentarian, and evidently visible destruction of pre-historic and historic archeological ...

Photo credit : India Today I ndia is our greatest ally and it is our greatest strategic hurdle too.  We have to take decisions based on only our national interests to play with India and China as major investing parties in Sri Lanka. It is more important then ever to do so since our Mother Land is in historical conjuncture.  G eographical   position of India and Sri Lanka have entangled us to play politics with India very cautiously. The  relation of the se two land masses' goes far back. For example the archaeological extracts found in Jaffna indicates influence of  Indus Valley Civilisation  in Sri Lanka. That is  pre-historical. So,  Mr. Modi   is peaking to Sri Lankan Tamil community in Dickoya  few weeks ago shall also be understood as a continuation  of this inevitable   natural   entanglement  of g eopolitics . To me, weather  British  Empire poked in in this relationship or not we Sri ...

A.S. Amarasinghe Vidanage MA in International Security and Law in Denmark. BA Horn in International Politics in London. https://lk.linkedin.com/in/amarasinghevidanage 10 April 2016 I t is is vague where reason ends and passion begins. But it becomes somewhat explicit if one places Mahinda and Gotabaya Rajapakshas to the passionate side and Maithripala Sirisena and Ranil Wickramasinghe’s government to the reasonable side.   While MR and GR were passionate about defeating terrorism and its aftermath MS and RW are rational about everything from electricity shortage in our country to regarding our position as a nation-state among international community. Destiny of a nation, for its good, is not determined by the reasonable leaders but by the passionate ones.    I explain why I prefer the side of passionate. The passion is what moves and changes things rapidly. It moves things to the next level. Rational minds are always in doubt and less progressive. ...

           D avid Cameron’s Britain has not even a slightest hesitation or a shame to call Britain as China’s best friend in Europe, as Cameron received Xi Jinping in London for a state visit. Credit:ft.com It is only the pragmatic classic British politics at its best is playing in this challenging times. But for our Sri Lankan politicians, it seems, China is only to be associated with if no other country paying attention to our relationship with China. It is really shame that this happens after so much China has done for our country in past years.  Quite the opposite that we went haywire when Ranil Wickramasinghe visited Japan, an arch historical rival of China. There comes no sign from the Sri Lankan Government that it has any idea of contemporary international relations. How come that when we even hesitate to show our due gratitude to China for what it has already done for our country - let alone to realise ...