Opinion

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What one small clinic tells us about Sri Lanka’s future

By Dr. Aleksander (Sasha) Bodiroza The road to Meeriyabedda winds through the hills above Passara, past tea estates and small communities where distance...

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A neighbour’s view of India’s strategic strengths

What India chooses to do with the strategic freedom it has built over eight decades may be the defining question of its next...

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America’s new strategy: Control the system, not the world

By Milinda Moragoda  As BRICS prepares to meet in New Delhi, it would do well to understand not only what the United States...

Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake at the commissioning ceremony of the offshore patrol vessel Samudravijaya, Port of Colombo, 4 June
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Sri Lanka has one last chance to become a strategic hub in Indian Ocean

By Milinda Moragoda Sri Lanka has three assets that could make it a logistics and energy hub in the Indian subcontinent comparable in...

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A civilisational approach to social media

By Milinda Moragoda The debate over banning social media for minors is rapidly becoming one of the defining policy questions of the digital...

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The paradox of the iron fist: Why political arrests can be self-defeating

By Milinda Moragoda  Throughout history, governments confronted with dissent have repeatedly reached for the same instrument: arrest. The logic is understandable. Remove a...

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India and China need to build trust, not manage rivalry

By Huang Yunsong, Asia’s stability will not be secured by treating one power’s Security Council seat as a precondition of legitimacy, nor by...

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The greying boardroom: Why age diversity deserves the same scrutiny as gender

By Cathrine Weerakkody When the Sri Lanka Institute of Directors (SLID) launched its Young Directors Forum in 2022, its inaugural panel made a...