{"id":213874,"date":"2020-10-12T00:35:43","date_gmt":"2020-10-11T19:05:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=213874"},"modified":"2020-10-16T05:20:32","modified_gmt":"2020-10-15T23:50:32","slug":"the-us-election-modis-india-the-gr-regime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/the-us-election-modis-india-the-gr-regime\/","title":{"rendered":"The US Election, Modi\u2019s India & The GR Regime\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Dayan Jayatilleka<\/a> –\u00a0<\/span><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

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Dr. Dayan Jayatilleka<\/p><\/div>\n

If President Trump wins, the external linkages and patronage the GR regime enjoys will attract the displeasure of the neoconservative anti-China \u2018robust pushback\u2019 strategists.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

If former Vice-President Biden wins\u2014which, thankfully, is more likely– the profile and practices of the GR regime will attract the critical gaze of a powerful resurgence of liberal-democratic internationalism.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

In an essay<\/span><\/a> in the prestigious Foreign Affairs, Joe Biden decries \u201cthe rapid advance of authoritarianism, nationalism, and illiberalism\u201d and asserts his global perspective and project as prospective US President:<\/p>\n

\u201cThe triumph of democracy and liberalism over fascism and autocracy created the free world. But this contest does not just define our past. It will define our future, as well.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201c\u2026The United States will prioritize results by galvanizing significant new country commitments in three areas: fighting corruption, defending against authoritarianism, and advancing human rights in their own nations and abroad.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Candidate Biden alleges that \u201cChina is\u2026extending its global reach, promoting its own political model\u2026\u201d (Ibid) President Gotabaya Rajapaksa<\/span><\/a> asserts his \u201cneutrality\u201d as between the US, China and India, but the big boys go by the JFK dictum \u201cnever mind what he says, watch his hands\u201d. Political power-projection and footprints leave distinctive \u2018heat signatures\u2019; state-reconfiguration reveals morphological correspondences.<\/p>\n

\u2018Authoritarian\u2019, \u2018nationalist\u2019, \u2018illiberal\u2019, \u2018autocracy\u2019, \u2018China\u2019s political model\u2019: wouldn\u2019t it be prudent for the Gotabaya Rajapaksa regime to stop checking all these Biden tick-boxes?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Whichever way the US election goes, it\u2019s all the same to India. The US tilt to India began under a Republican President, George W Bush in 2004. Trump and Modi are friends, and the Trump administration is on the warpath with China. However, the American soft power affinity and romance with India as the world\u2019s largest democracy, is far more a US Democrat passion dating back to Ambassador JK Galbraith. That dimension will take a quantum leap with a Harris Vice-Presidency.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Modi & 13A<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

The Indian PM made an unambiguous statement about the Tamils and the 13th amendment<\/span><\/a>. The Sri Lankan side responded with slippery evasiveness but implied an interface by using the phrase \u2018Constitutional provisions\u2019. The Tamil issue and the 13th amendment were contained in a distinct item, No 7, in the Joint Statement:<\/p>\n

\u201c7. Prime Minister Modi called on the Government of Sri Lanka to address the aspirations of the Tamil people for equality, justice, peace and respect within a united Sri Lanka, including by carrying forward the process of reconciliation with the implementation of the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution of Sri Lanka. Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa expressed the confidence that Sri Lanka will work towards realizing the expectations of all ethnic groups, including Tamils, by achieving reconciliation nurtured as per the mandate of the people of Sri Lanka and implementation of the Constitutional provisions.\u201d (India-Sri Lanka Joint Statement on Virtual Bilateral Summit)<\/p>\n

At the summit, Prime Minister Modi<\/span><\/a> significantly added the word \u201cessential\u201d to his standard formulation. The official media release from the Indian side read: \u201cHe emphasized that implementation of the 13th amendment to the Sri Lankan Constitution is essential for carrying forward the process of peace and reconciliation.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

After the Joint Statement, the Sri Lankan PM\u2019s Office released its own statement omitting what the Indian PM said on the Tamils and the 13th amendment, which the Sri Lankan side obviously signed-off on for inclusion in the Joint Statement.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Minister Keheliya Rambukwelle attempted to spin the story at his first post-summit media briefing, and in his next one he grudgingly acknowledged the 13A reference in answer to a pointed question by the journalist, but downplayed and deflected Mr. Modi\u2019s statement: \u201c\u2026it was an opinion\u2026he expressed an opinion\u2026\u201d.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Prof Charitha Herath, MP, and Viyathmaga member, explained on TV that in the making of a new Constitution the government will take into account that which is good in the 13th amendment and discard the bad.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

State Minister, Rear-Admiral Sarath Weerasekara, a Viyathmaga-Eliya luminary in whose charge the President judiciously placed the Provincial Council system, was more pointed<\/span><\/a>:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cProvincial Councils is an internal matter which should be decided by the President of Sri Lanka and not by the leaders of other countries\u2026India cannot interfere or intimidate that we should continue with the Provincial Councils\u2026 The 13th Amendment was introduced into our Constitution under the Indo-Lanka pact and according to which India had to fulfil several conditions and one of which was the disarming of the LTTE, which never took place. India could not accomplish it. Therefore, it is questionable as to what extent this Indo-Lanka Agreement is effective\u2026\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Ven. Dr. Medagoda Abayathissa, a member of Eliya and of the Buddhist Advisory Council which President Gotabaya Rajapaksa convenes every month, pointedly queried: \u201cHow can there be a 13th amendment in a brand-new Constitution?\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The sole substantive political point made by the Indian side at the level of the Prime Minister– who is a global player, not only a powerful national leader– is that of the Tamils and the 13th amendment. By ignoring or brushing aside that single political point, which the Indian PM thought \u201cessential\u201d, Colombo makes clear that it does not take India\u2019s political signaling\u2014its messaging at the highest level– with the seriousness that is warranted.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Is the potential cost of accommodating Prime Minister Modi\u2019s \u2018opinion\u2019 \u2013or reminder\u2014of what he regards as \u2018essential\u2019, greater than the potential cost of not doing so?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The 13th amendment is the very core of the Indo-Sri Lanka Accord, a bilateral agreement between states\u2014notwithstanding the governmental and\/or constitutional changes.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Since the Accord and the amendment were the factors that pivoted India away from patronage of the Tamil cause to that of partnership with Colombo, can Sri Lanka risk a unilateral move on 13A triggering a potential, partial reverse effect\u2014especially with slight signs of peaceful civic protest (the Thileepan shut-down) in the North and East?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has mentioned Sri Lanka critically in his report to the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva. India\u2019s umbrella may be necessary for Sri Lanka in UN forums, for which the implementation of the 13th amendment \u2013a longstanding Sri Lankan pledge–may be a modest price to pay.\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

India continues to attract and entrance Russia, a durable relationship which Moscow will not give up or jeopardize even for China. India\u2019s active role in the SCO, the Commonwealth, the Nonaligned\/G-77 and many other multilateral forums gives it diplomatic space that few big powers have.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

President Mahinda Rajapaksa played the Indian card to offset Western pressure to stop the war. If President GR\u2019s stand today on 13A had been President MR\u2019s stand in 2008-2009, would we have been able to win the war, or would we have been interrupted \u2013this time by the West–as we were in 1987?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Unlike the Geneva 2015 resolution which the government can credibly dissociate itself from, the pledge to implement 13A comes not only from a Rajapaksa administration but was repeatedly conveyed by the \u2018troika\u2019 handling Indo-Lanka relations, which consisted of Secretary Defense Gotabaya Rajapaksa, Minister Basil Rajapaksa and Presidential Secretary Lalith Weeratunga. It was a pledge of three Rajapaksa brothers.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Doesn\u2019t it trouble President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and his brothers, that having given their collective word in wartime to implement the 13th amendment, he is coldly silent on the subject even in the company of Prime Minister Modi– and seems to be going back on it? Is President Gotabaya Rajapaksa reneging on our wartime promise to Delhi because he doesn\u2019t think he needs India anymore?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The shared Rajapaksa assumption is that they were turfed-out in 2015 by an Indo-US tilt due to misapprehensions about a Rajapaksa gateway for China. If so, how would the USA and India view the return of the Rajapaksas and the constitutional \u2018siloing\u2019 of the regime at this time of intensifying strategic competition with China?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The most rudimentary geopolitical analysis would say that this island\u2019s contiguous Northern and Eastern provinces, with a fairly compact majority of Tamil speakers– an Indian language\u2014and the Trincomalee harbor, constitute a natural buffer for India, to offset any expansion of Chinese influence in the Sinhala-majority two-thirds of this island located on India\u2019s southern perimeter.\u00a0 <\/span>Thus, the effective implementation of the 13th amendment and the non-diminution of the Provincial Councils, is more than a mere opinion of Prime Minister Modi, but geo-strategically essential for India especially at a time of intensified competition with China. \u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Which external power has the most political influence over and within the current Sri Lankan regime? Whoever it is, it sure isn\u2019t India. The paradox is that the island may be in India\u2019s geopolitical sphere of influence but India\u2019s political influence on the state is minimal, marginal, ineffective.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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