COLOMBO: The Chinese survey vessel Yuan Wang 5 has docked at Sri Lanka’s Chinese-built Hambantota port, Refinitiv data and nearby media showed upon Tuesday (Aug 16).
The particular ship has been a bone fragments of contention between India and Tiongkok, two of Sri Lanka’s biggest benefactors in its current economic crisis. India fears its bigger and more effective rival China uses the Hambantota slot near the main Asia-Europe shipping route as being a military base.
Foreign security experts describe the Yuan Wang 5 among China’s latest era space-tracking ships, used to monitor satellite, skyrocket and intercontinental ballistic missile launches.
The Pentagon states the Yuan Wang ships are managed by the Strategic Assistance Force of the Householder’s Liberation Army.
Sri Lanka said on Saturday it had agreed that the Yuan Wang 5 can dock at Hambantota, despite security problems raised by Indian and the United States.
India has declined claims that it provides put pressure upon Sri Lanka to turn the particular vessel away.