By P. K. Balachandran
On the face of it, opting for “strategic autonomy” in a multi-polar world makes sense. It releases a country from the shackles of pre-existing alliances and…
Malwatu Oya Soya / Courtesy FilmFreeway
By Uditha Devapriya
The Malwatu Oya is most important and the most historic of the rivers in Sri Lanka. Its history is woven into the…
By Zeenath Ayub
The Sri Lankan men’s cricket team clinched a win at their first warm-up match against Zimbabwe in the T20 World Cup 2022 early this week, ahead of…
By Sanja de Silva Jayatilleka
On the 6th of October 2022, a resolution on Sri Lanka was adopted at the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) in Geneva, by a vote…
By Lasanda Kurukulasuriya
In a recent speech at the National Defence College, President Ranil Wickremesinghe made comments on the geopolitics of the Indian Ocean, some of which throw light on…
By P. K. Balachandran
On September 1, Sri Lanka succeeded in arriving at a staff-level agreement with the IMF for an Extended Fund Facility (EFF) of US$ 2.9 billion, spread…
By Dr Dayan Jayatilleka
With the Ukraine war, which is actually a proxy war between NATO and Russia, in full swing, one cannot but help look back at how Russia…
By Uditha Devapriya
Sri Lanka’s economic woes have not cast a shadow over its complex foreign relations. On August 16, the southern port of Hambantota welcomed the Yuan Wang 5,…
By Uditha Devapriya
How one team came together to resolve Sri Lanka’s intractable fuel shortages
On June 27, Sri Lankans woke up to some rather dismal news: the country had…
By P. K. Balachandran
The recent Sri Lanka-India-China triangular controversy over the docking of the Chinese research vessel Yuan Wang 5 at Hambantota port once again underscores the need to…
By Kusum Wijetilleke
Following the first Sino-Japanese war in 1895, the Qing Dynasty ceded the island of Taiwan, creating Imperial Japan’s first colony. The Japanese had planned to create what…
By Kaif Sally
For some 500 years, the West dominated the course of history. The burning question now on the horizon is, how will the 21st century become an Asian…