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🚨🇮🇳INDIA, UAE TO BUILD ENERGY HUB IN SRI LANKA—CHALLENGE TO CHINA BEGINS
India and the UAE have joined forces to develop a major energy hub in Sri Lanka’s Trincomalee port, intensifying India’s strategic competition with China in the Indian Ocean.
The deal, announced during Modi’s visit to Colombo, marks the first major initiative under Sri Lanka’s new president and will include pipelines, storage facilities, and a World War II-era tank farm partly held by Indian Oil.
China’s Sinopec is already building a $3.2B refinery in the south—making the Trincomalee project a direct geopolitical counterweight.