{"id":81499,"date":"2021-02-09T20:41:05","date_gmt":"2021-02-09T15:11:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=81499"},"modified":"2021-03-01T14:22:36","modified_gmt":"2021-03-01T08:52:36","slug":"chinese-energy-projects-near-tamil-nadu-cleared-by-sri-lanka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/chinese-energy-projects-near-tamil-nadu-cleared-by-sri-lanka\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese energy projects near Tamil Nadu cleared by Sri Lanka"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>What is the News?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Sri Lankan Government has cleared a Chinese project to set up hybrid wind and solar energy projects on three Sri Lankan islands.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Note<\/strong>: This development comes after Sri Lanka had recently decided to pull out of the <a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/sri-lanka-has-pushed-india-and-japan-out-from-the-colombo-terminal-project\/\">East Container Terminal(ECT) deal <\/a>with India and Japan.<\/p>\n<p><strong>About the Project:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>China&#8217;s hybrid renewable energy systems project is to be constructed on the three Islands namely Delft, Nainativu, and Analativu.<\/li>\n<li>These islands are managed by the Sri Lankan Navy.<\/li>\n<li>It will be implemented as a joint venture between the Sri Lankan government and Etechwin, a subsidiary of the Chinese wind turbine manufacturer Gold wind.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Funding: <\/strong>Asian Development Bank will fund the project.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>Concerns of India:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>These three Islands are located off the northern Jaffna peninsula which is 45 km from Rameswaram in Tamil Nadu.<\/li>\n<li>The delft island is in northern Sri Lanka and is one of the closest points to India.<\/li>\n<li>Kachchatheevu is the tiny island that India ceded to Sri Lanka in 1974. It is located Between Delft Island and Rameshwaram.<\/li>\n<li>The waters around these islands are an area of contest and rivalry between Tamil Nadu and Jaffna fishers. The matter has been on the bilateral agenda for decades.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>Previous Instances:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In 2018, India had voiced concern over China\u2019s $300 million housing project for war-affected areas. It accused the Sri Lankan Government of holding an opaque bidding process. The project was eventually dropped.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/epaper.thehindu.com\/Home\/MShareArticle?OrgId=G3K88NHN5.1&amp;imageview=0\"><strong>The Hindu<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is the News? The Sri Lankan Government has cleared a Chinese project to set up hybrid wind and solar energy projects on three Sri Lankan islands. Note: This development comes after Sri Lanka had recently decided to pull out of the East Container Terminal(ECT) deal with India and Japan. About the Project: China&#8217;s hybrid&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/chinese-energy-projects-near-tamil-nadu-cleared-by-sri-lanka\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Chinese energy projects near Tamil Nadu cleared by Sri Lanka<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,164,9],"tags":[1333,1457],"class_list":["post-81499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-international-relations-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-ir_0","tag-ir_02","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81499\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}