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The popular narrative that China has bought over Sri Lanka, using subsidised infrastructure projects to whittle away Indian influence, was served a reality check during the visit of Sri Lanka’s Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe.
In New Delhi on Wednesday, the two countries signed an agreement for India to refurbish and develop a strategically important “oil tank farm” at Trincomalee on the northeastern coast of Sri Lanka.
The giant oil farm, with the capacity to store over a million tonnes of petroleum, was built between the two World Wars as a logistic facility for British forces in Southeast Asia.
Trincomalee, reportedly
