Xijinping building a Huge Modern Port in Sri Lanka @Doorstep of Ah-Neh Modi, PLA warships will surely be parking there! GPGT!

[Tony Tan]

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斯里兰卡总理点赞科伦坡港口城建设
2020年09月18日 14:20:09 | 来源： 新华网

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9月17日，在斯里兰卡科伦坡港口城中央公园，斯里兰卡总理马欣达·拉贾帕克萨（中左）种下凤凰木。 斯里兰卡总理马欣达·拉贾帕克萨17日率多名内阁部长来到科伦坡港口城，参加港口城奠基开工6周年纪念活动，他对科伦坡港口城建设进展予以积极评价。 新华社发（阿吉特·佩雷拉摄）


斯里兰卡总理点赞科伦坡港口城建设
2020年09月18日 14:20:09 | 来源： 新华网

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9月17日，在斯里兰卡科伦坡港口城项目展厅，斯里兰卡总理马欣达·拉贾帕克萨（前排右三）和多名部长听取项目最新进展汇报。 斯里兰卡总理马欣达·拉贾帕克萨17日率多名内阁部长来到科伦坡港口城，参加港口城奠基开工6周年纪念活动，他对科伦坡港口城建设进展予以积极评价。 新华社记者 唐璐 摄


斯里兰卡总理点赞科伦坡港口城建设
2020年09月18日 14:20:09 | 来源： 新华网

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这是9月3日航拍的斯里兰卡科伦坡港口城项目综合管廊施工现场。 斯里兰卡总理马欣达·拉贾帕克萨17日率多名内阁部长来到科伦坡港口城，参加港口城奠基开工6周年纪念活动，他对科伦坡港口城建设进展予以积极评价。 新华社发（中国港湾科伦坡港口城项目部供图）

斯里兰卡总理点赞科伦坡港口城建设
2020年09月18日 14:20:09 | 来源： 新华网

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这是9月3日航拍的斯里兰卡科伦坡港口城内的建设工地。 斯里兰卡总理马欣达·拉贾帕克萨17日率多名内阁部长来到科伦坡港口城，参加港口城奠基开工6周年纪念活动，他对科伦坡港口城建设进展予以积极评价。 新华社发（中国港湾科伦坡港口城项目部供图）


斯里兰卡总理点赞科伦坡港口城建设
2020年09月18日 14:20:09 | 来源： 新华网

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9月17日，在斯里兰卡科伦坡港口城人工沙滩，斯里兰卡总理马欣达·拉贾帕克萨（前）为即将对公众开放的海滨高尔夫练习场开球。 斯里兰卡总理马欣达·拉贾帕克萨17日率多名内阁部长来到科伦坡港口城，参加港口城奠基开工6周年纪念活动，他对科伦坡港口城建设进展予以积极评价。 新华社发（阿吉特·佩雷拉 摄）



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Prime Minister of Sri Lanka praises the construction of Colombo Port City

September 18, 2020 14:20:09 | Source: Xinhuanet



(International) (1) The Prime Minister of Sri Lanka praised the construction of the Port City of Colombo


On September 17, Sri Lankan Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa (middle left) planted poinciana in the Central Park of Port City Colombo, Sri Lanka. Sri Lankan Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa led a number of cabinet ministers to the Port City of Colombo on the 17th to participate in the 6th Anniversary Commemoration of the Port City’s groundbreaking. He positively commented on the progress of the Port City of Colombo. Published by Xinhua News Agency (Photo by Ajit Pereira)



Prime Minister of Sri Lanka praises the construction of Colombo Port City

September 18, 2020 14:20:09 | Source: Xinhuanet



(International) (2) The Prime Minister of Sri Lanka praised the construction of the Port City of Colombo


On September 17, at the Colombo Port City Project Exhibition Hall, Sri Lankan Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa (third from right in the front row) and several ministers listened to the latest progress report of the project. Sri Lankan Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa led a number of cabinet ministers to the Port City of Colombo on the 17th to participate in the 6th Anniversary Commemoration of the Port City’s groundbreaking. He positively commented on the progress of the Port City of Colombo. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Tang Lu



Prime Minister of Sri Lanka praises the construction of Colombo Port City

September 18, 2020 14:20:09 | Source: Xinhuanet



(International) (3) The Prime Minister of Sri Lanka praised the construction of Colombo Port City


This is the construction site of the integrated pipe gallery of the Colombo Port City project in Sri Lanka taken from the aerial on September 3. Sri Lankan Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa led a number of cabinet ministers to the Port City of Colombo on the 17th to participate in the 6th Anniversary Commemoration of the Port City’s groundbreaking. He positively commented on the progress of the Port City of Colombo. Issued by Xinhua News Agency (Photo courtesy of China Harbour Colombo Port City Project Department)


Prime Minister of Sri Lanka praises the construction of Colombo Port City

September 18, 2020 14:20:09 | Source: Xinhuanet



(International) (4) The Prime Minister of Sri Lanka praised the construction of Colombo Port City


This is the construction site in the port city of Colombo, Sri Lanka taken from the aerial on September 3. Sri Lankan Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa led a number of cabinet ministers to the Port City of Colombo on the 17th to participate in the 6th Anniversary Commemoration of the Port City’s groundbreaking. He positively commented on the progress of the Port City of Colombo. Issued by Xinhua News Agency (Photo courtesy of China Harbour Colombo Port City Project Department)



Prime Minister of Sri Lanka praises the construction of Colombo Port City
September 18, 2020 14:20:09 | Source: Xinhuanet



(International) (5) Prime Minister of Sri Lanka praised the construction of Colombo Port City


On September 17, Sri Lankan Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa (formerly) kicked off the golf course at the seaside golf driving range that will be open to the public on the artificial beach of Colombo Port City, Sri Lanka. Sri Lankan Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa led a number of cabinet ministers to the Port City of Colombo on the 17th to participate in the 6th Anniversary Commemoration of the Port City’s groundbreaking. He positively commented on the progress of the Port City of Colombo. Published by Xinhua News Agency (Photo by Ajit Pereira)

 

[tanwahtiu]

Sri Lanka island is like 太晚 island, a headache to India, where Taiwan is headache to China..

 

[syed putra]

Indian ocean belongs to indians.

 

[tanwahtiu]

Indian ocean belongs to indians.

 

[ilovechinesegal]

Most ah neh dunno how to swim! They are super lousy in water!

 

[mudhatter]

Without securing even bigger foothold in ASEAN, Tiongs just can't hope to reach Sri Lanky to fight CECA.

Without securing a big enough foothold in ASEAN, Tiongs can't hope to provide adequate assistance to Gwadar or Chahbahar in countering CECA-Yankee blockades against Gwadar or Chahbahar or both.

Tiongs need to muscle in and boost Pakistan Iran Turkey's strength. Help oust Yankee/NATO from Afghanistan and place Taliban firmly in power. Boost Norkies' economic and diplomatic reach. Do the same to Venezuela and Cuba but not so much so that their regimes attract too much yankee attention so that they end up being toppled.

Once a foothold is secured in ASEAN and Pakistan Iran and Turkey collective strengths are boosted by Tiongs, only then they can help Tiongs counter Yankees and their poodles.

Pakistan, Iran and Turkey can help expel NATO from Afghanistan, return representive govts to power in Arab countries, without whom no hope whatsoever of toppling Yankees from their position.

 

[Hypocrite-The]

Ah tiongs scared or not..ah neh defending against them now

India digs tunnel on crucial China border frontier
September 18, 2020 9:46pm
India will this month open the world's longest high altitude traffic tunnel that will cut crucial hours off the time needed to speed troops and weapons to the remote border where it is in a standoff with China.
AFPnews.com.au
A tunnel nearing completion in the Indian Himalayas will slash by hours the time it takes troops to reach the Chinese border, part of an infrastructure blitz by New Delhi that is gathering pace since a bloody border clash.
The nuclear-armed Asian giants blame each other for a brutal high-altitude battle in June that left 20 Indian soldiers dead and an unspecified number of Chinese casualties.
Both have sent massive troop reinforcements, but India has also stepped up its activities behind the front lines — belatedly so, analysts say.
Its infrastructure program includes roads and bridges as well as high-altitude helipads and airstrips for civilian and military aircraft.
The showpiece is a $547 million (US $400 million) tunnel in Himachal Pradesh state, providing an all-weather route for military convoys to avoid a 50km trudge through mountain passes that are snowbound in winter and subject to frequent landslides.
From late this month, what used to be a four-hour, winding, high-altitude crossing will be cut to a 10-minute dash through the mountains in the state-of-the-art tunnel.

Labourers work inside the Atal Rohtang Tunnel in Himachal Pradesh state. Picture: Money Sharma / AFP Source: AFPThe tunnel will slash the time it takes to rush troops to the Chinese border. Picture: Money Sharma / AFP Source: AFPChief Engineer of the Project Atal Rohtang Tunnel, poses for a photograph inside the tunnel. Picture: Money Sharma / AFP Source: AFP
“There have been times on the pass route when vehicles have broken down, causing traffic jams of even six to eight hours,” said Lieutenant-General Harpal Singh, head of India’s Border Roads Organisation (BRO).
“This tunnel and the other infrastructure plans change a lot for the troops,” he told AFP.
ENGINEERING FEAT
Labourers are working overtime to get the tunnel ready before Prime Minister Narendra Modi is due to open it later this month.
Currently, essential items such as arms, ammunition and food have to be transported up in bulk before winter starts in an area where temperatures can plunge to minus 40 Celsius.
Constructed at an altitude of more than 3000 metres and stretching nine kilometres, the Atal Rohtang tunnel is also a feat of engineering.
A decade in the making, freezing winter temperatures meant work could only take place from April to September. Workers wore special microchips to help locate them if they got trapped in an avalanche.
Still, India’s efforts only belatedly mirror those of China, experts say. “Earlier administrations wasted two decades,” said Harsh Pant, from the Observer Research Foundation think-tank in New Delhi.
“China, and its infrastructure, is much stronger today.”
Workers at the northern end of the tunnel in Teling village in Lahaul and Spiti district of Himachal Pradesh state. Picture: Money Sharma / AFP Source: AFP
TRAINING THE LOCALS
Sanjay Kundu, the Himachal Pradesh police chief, has also proposed arming locals and training them to report possible Chinese spies and drone and helicopter sightings.
“Ultimately, whether it is at the border or the hinterland, people need to be trained and they need to be trained in defending themselves,” he told AFP.
The government hopes it will reassure worried villagers.
“In the last few weeks they’ve seen a lot more activity of fighter planes over the region,” said Lobsang Gyaltsen, an elected representative from a village around 30 kilometres from the border.
“They often wonder if China is attacking,” Gyaltsen told AFP.
TANKS
The BRO says it has built more strategic roads — most in the high-tension zone next to China — the last four years than in the previous decade and aims to complete 15 more key routes by the end of 2021.
Labourers are upgrading a recently completed 250 kilometre stretch parallel to the Chinese frontier that cuts journey times from Ladakh’s capital Leh from one week to less than a day.
Significantly, by next month all bridges along the route will be able to support the weight of a 70-tonne T-90 tank on a trailer, or a truck carrying a surface-to-air missile, according to press reports.
There are several strategic high-altitude tunnels as well as 125 bridges at different stages of planning in the states of Ladakh, Arunachal Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh and Sikkim bordering Tibet and Xinjiang.
Besides the strategic value, the improvements will also be life-changing for people who can be cut off from the rest of India for months in winter.
This will boost the local economy and attract more people to the sparsely populated area, and so make it less prone to cross-border incursions by the Chinese, the government hopes.

 

[syed putra]

Pakistan, Iran and Turkey can help expel NATO from Afghanistan, return representive govts

US and possibly europe will leave Afghanistan soon. As soon as trump makes a peace deal with the Taliban.

 

[A Singaporean]

Indian ocean belongs to indians.

South China Sea belongs to China?