Diplomacy: Ranil- Maithri Under Chinese Control!
China invited Gotabaya to the Xiangshan Forum. China had also invited Defence Secretary Karunasena Hettiarachchi and other representatives of the government as well. The question as to whether Gotabaya was representing China or Sri Lanka arises.
by Upul Joseph Fernando 
( October 12, 2016, Colombo, Sri Lanka Guardian) During the time of the war when the Rajapaksa Government was hunting for media who were against the Rajapaksas, innocent journalists who wanted to save their lives fled to India. India granted them visas on requests made by western countries led by America. The Rajapaksas were angered because India granted visas to journalists who were against their government. The group consisting of Basil, Gotabaya and Lalith Weeratunga who were sent to deal with India then by Mahinda expressed their opposition to India for granting visas to journalists opposed to the government.
Since the then Indian High Commissioner in this country Alok Prasad was also a pet of the Rajapaksas; he also submitted facts against issuing of these visas. India which accepted the request of the Rajapaksas, immediately ordered the Sri Lankan journalists who came to the country to save their lives to leave. At the same time they halted the issue of Indian visas to journalists who requested them. That is how India, honoured the requests of the Government of Sri Lanka. During the 2010 presidential election, Sarath Fonseka put in much effort to meet the Indian leaders of State. He prepared to go to India through an Indian channel of the Indian Government itself. The Rajapaksas who heard of this expressed their opposition regarding Fonseka meeting the Indian leaders. The Indian Government accepted the plea of the Rajapaksas. The reason was, at that time, it was Mahinda who was the President of the country. Finally even though Fonseka visited India, he did not go to New Delhi. He went to Mumbai instead. The Rajapaksas made sure that Fonseka would not be able to meet an Indian leader while in Mumbai.
An impeachment was brought against the 43rd Chief Justice Shirani Bandaranayake then, and once she was removed from her post, Indian universities had expressed their willingness to invite her over to lecture. The reason was because she was a Professor and she had written books on the devolution of power. India thought that if they invited her, it would be like a slap on the cheek of the Rajapaksa Government and did not encourage the universities to do so. India which has close relations with politics in Sri Lanka and political leaders, were very careful not to do anything that would damage relations between the Governments of Sri Lanka and India. Mahinda was now preparing for a tour of India. He got down invitations from temples and kovils in India and was wondering whether he could meet Narendra Modi. However, it was clear that Modi was not prepared to meet Mahinda. When Modi came to Sri Lanka, Mahinda met Modi without an invitation by pleading and demanding an opportunity to meet him.
Mahinda‘s government
During the time of Mahinda’s Government, if India wanted to do so, they had the ability to get down Fonseka and Shirani Bandaranayake to their country and pinch Mahinda. However, India was not that uncivilized.
China was a country that dealt with each government that came into power in Sri Lanka. In 1977, when JR came into power, China who strengthened their relations with the UNP, forgot about their historic friends who were the Bandaranaikes as if they were throwing away curry leaves (karapincha.) It was a surprise for Madame Bandaranaike too. While she was in the Opposition, she did not receive an invitation even to visit China. The reason was China was not keen on displeasing JR’s Government.
While dealing very carefully with Sri Lanka, China getting down for a security conference, Gotabaya Rajapaksa who had Court cases filed against him by the Government of Sri Lanka accusing him of having defrauded public money in Sri Lanka via the Avant Garde transaction, was similar to a slap on the cheek of the government of Sri Lanka. Gotabaya went to China, while requesting that the ban on his travelling abroad issued by the Court be removed temporarily. Getting a defendant who has been named by the government to have defrauded public money to attend a security conference in China caused more than enough harm not only to the Maithri-Ranil Government but to entire Sri Lanka as a country.
China invited Gotabaya to the Xiangshan Forum. China had also invited Defence Secretary Karunasena Hettiarachchi and other representatives of the government as well. The question as to whether Gotabaya was representing China or Sri Lanka arises.
If the Maithri-Ranil Government had a straight spine and stood up straight, China would not engage in such jokes. China considered Buddhist Leader Dalai Lama as an enemy and it is not possible to bring down Dalai Lama to Sri Lanka because if it is done, China has hinted and warned Sri Lanka that it will be an act of enmity that Sri Lanka commits against them. If the Maithri-Ranil Government warns China about inviting their political enemies, who have accusations against depriving Sri Lanka of public money, to China, there would be no doubt that China would fear that.
