Spotted this - new item to me - in The Times: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/new...cle6207487.ece
Which reports China is building a commercial port in Sri Lanka, which could become a base for their expanding navy (similar to Gwador, the Pakistani port).
I'd missed this development, although the article indicates others have not.
Strange that the natural harbour, Trincomalee, ex-RN base was not used.
Incidntally the Sri Lankan conflict rarely appears on SWJ.
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