India, Sri Lanka Likely to Seal Defense Pact to Counter China
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India and Sri Lanka are likely to sign a defense-cooperation pact, a first-in-decades development that has the potential to counter Chinese aggressiveness in the Indian Ocean region.
A defense-cooperation agreement “is expected to be signed” during Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s two-day visit to the island nation starting April 4, India’s top diplomat Vikram Misri told reporters in New Delhi on Friday. Misri didn’t give more detail.