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India, Sri Lanka Reset Relationship As Sri Lankan Leader Visits New Delhi

Anjana Pasricha

   NEW DELHI - India has offered to lend $400 million to Colombo for
   infrastructure development as it reaches out to build ties with Sri
   Lanka's newly elected president, Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who is visiting
   New Delhi.
   Rajapaksa's meetings Friday with Indian leaders, less than two weeks
   after he took power, signal an effort by both countries to reset a
   relationship strained during a previous term when he and his brother
   dominated Sri Lankan politics and took the country closer to China.
   India and China have been competing for influence in the tiny island
   country located off India's southern tip that has seen an influx of
   Chinese investment in the last decade. New Delhi was particularly
   perturbed when Chinese nuclear submarines docked at Colombo harbor in
   2014 when Gotabaya Rajapaksa was defense secretary and his brother was
   the president.

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