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Sri Lanka crisis gives India chance to gain sway vs China

FILE- Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, left, and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi arrive at the Chinese funded sea reclamation Port City project in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Jan. 9, 2022. Sri Lanka's strategic location has attracted outsized interest in the small island nation from regional giants China and India for more than a decade, with Beijing and its free-flowing loans and infrastructure investments widely seen as having gained the upper hand in the quest for influence. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena, File) FILE - Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, left, poses for media before his meeting with then Sri Lankan Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Sunday, Jan. 9, 2022. Sri Lanka's strategic location has attracted outsized interest in the small island nation from regional giants China and India for more than a decade, with Beijing and its free-flowing loans and infrastructure investments widely seen as having gained the upper hand in the quest for influence. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena, File) FILE - Indian Prime Minister Narender Modi, right, shakes hand with his then Sri Lankan counterpart Mahinda Rajapaksa, during a ceremonial reception for Rajapaksa at the Indian presidential palace, in New Delhi, India, Saturday, Feb. 8, 2020. Sri Lanka's strategic location has attracted outsized interest in the small island nation from regional giants China and India for more than a decade, with Beijing and its free-flowing loans and infrastructure investments widely seen as having gained the upper hand in the quest for influence. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup, File) FILE - China's President Xi Jinping, left, waves as he walks with then Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa upon arrival at the airport in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Tuesday, Sept. 16, 2014. Sri Lanka's strategic location has attracted outsized interest in the small island nation from regional giants China and India for more than a decade, with Beijing and its free-flowing loans and infrastructure investments widely seen as having gained the upper hand in the quest for influence. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena, File) FILE - Indian Prime Minister Narender Modi, center left, greets his then Sri Lankan counterpart Mahinda Rajapaksa, during a ceremonial reception at the Indian presidential palace, in New Delhi, India, Saturday, Feb. 8, 2020. Sri Lanka's strategic location has attracted outsized interest in the small island nation from regional giants China and India for more than a decade, with Beijing and its free-flowing loans and infrastructure investments widely seen as having gained the upper hand in the quest for influence. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup, File)