The Chinese vessels heading to Sri Lanka’s Hambantota port has been asked to postpone its trip. This comes after India raise concern over presence of China's alleged spy vessel in Indian ocean .
The Lunken government asked China to postpone vessel yuan wang five strip schedule between August 11th and 17th . On Monday making a statement the Lankan former minister confirm that the embassy of China in Colombo to postpone the visit of The vessel to the hambantota port.
Meanwhile Beijing is miffed over Lanka remove responding to the to this the permission of a dock its vessel at Lunkan port China said that it is exercising in freedom of the high Seas in accordance with the law . The country urgered relevant parties to stop disrupting normal exchange and cooperation between China and Sri Lanka for research .
The South Asian nation further added that pressurizing Sri Lanka citing security concern is senseless this comes after india raised alarm a long over Chinese vessel yuan wang 5 presence in the Indian Ocean .
India had expressed its security concerns of the docking of The vessel at hambantota as it was shown as a research vessel. While the spy ship can map the ocean bad which is critical to 20 submarine operations of the Chinese Devi. As it has the capability of conducting satellite research in the North Western part of the Indian Ocean region .
Now Hambantota port located around 250 km from Colombo was built with high entrust Chinese loans the Sri Lankan Government struggle to repay the debt following which the port was handed over to china on a 99 year lease.
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