Chinese missile tracker ship prospecting Indian Ocean bed south of Sri Lanka

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After leaving the Port of Hambantota on August 22, the Chinese satellite and the Yuan Wang 5 ballistic missile tracking boat are currently mapping the 400 nautical (741 kilometer) sea beds in the southern Dondra Head, the southernmost tip of Sri Lanka.

According to information available, military vessels are expected to go to their home Port Jiangyin near Shanghai according to the details provided in Hambantota. However, it is unclear whether the ship will make another port call while on his way back to China.

Although classified as a Chinese research vessel, ballistic missile tracking ships become a battle with the Sri Lanka authority that allows ships to dock in Hambantota on August 16 after initially postponing port calls on August 11. The Hambantota Port is in 99 years of rent with China after Sri Lanka under the friendly Rajapaksa regime Beijing exchanging debt equity with the Xi Jinping regime in 2017.

According to Chinese observers, the anchors of Yuan Wang 5 in Hambantota are political statements statements by the Xi Jinping regime about the weak government of Ranil Wickremesing after India secretly expressed his concern about military vessels.

Thanks to economic waste by the Rajapaksa regime, Sri Lanka who went bankrupt in debt as much as 10 percent of external debt to China and Colombo needed support from Beijing to get credit that was needed from the IMF and the World Bank to run the country. The total external and internal debt of Sri Lanka is around USD 97-98 billion, far outside the gross domestic product.

Since 2020, as many as 53 such vessels have been monitored operating in the Indian Ocean region with 3-5 called research vessels operating in the area at a certain time. While China in front of him is trying to help Litoral the Indian Ocean exploit resources in each EEZ, all of its aim is to monitor Indian missile activities in Bengal Bay and seabed mapping, which is very important for anti -sub -section of surgery.