Sri Lanka’s newly elected President Gotabhaya Rajapaksa sought to play down his country’s links to China on his first trip to neighbouring India.The ties between Colombo and Beijing were “purely commercial”, he said in an interview with Indian newspaper The Hindu on Saturday.Rajapaksa, who won the presidential election last month, also played down the military links between China and Sri Lanka – like the visit of Chinese submarines to the island nation in 2014 when he was defence secretary.“I…
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