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China Ship Indian Ocean: China is infamous for infiltration and espionage across the world, although it does not desist from its activities. Now, according to the information shared by Sri Lanka, China’s powerful spy ship Xi Yan 6 has entered the Indian Ocean and is moving towards India.
According to the information currently available, the ship is on the ridge of 90 degree east longitude in the middle of the Indian Ocean and is continuously moving towards Sri Lanka. It is noteworthy that since the year 2019, about 48 Chinese scientific research ships have been deployed in the Indian Ocean Region (IOR), in which the general area of deployment is the Bay of Bengal and the Arabian Sea towards the south as well as the Persian Gulf.
Shi Yan 6 a spy ship
Xi Yan 6 is a so-called Chinese research ship, about which China says that this ship does research with the National Aquatic Resources Research and Development Agency (NARA), but experts say that it is a Chinese spy ship. It is known that Shi Yan 6 ship is a major project of China’s 13th Five-Year Plan to build science and education infrastructure. Two years after its inauguration, the ship successfully made its maiden voyage in the Eastern Indian Ocean in 2022. Sri Lanka’s Ranil Wickremesinghe government has given permission to dock this Chinese research vessel at Colombo port in October.
Sri Lankan Foreign Minister expressed concern for India
Sri Lankan Foreign Minister Ali Sabri said on Tuesday that Colombo has not given permission to the Chinese ship Xi Yan 6 to approach Sri Lanka due to Indian security concerns. He said that Indian security concerns are important for Sri Lanka. Along with this he further said that talks are going on and if the ship follows the standard operating procedures of Sri Lanka, then there will be no problem.
It is noteworthy that in an interview given to the American think tank a month ago, Sri Lankan President Wickremesinghe had said that there is no Chinese spy ship in Sri Lanka and if the ship follows the SOP set by Sri Lanka then there will be no problem in granting permission for docking. Should be. Earlier, last year too, China’s spy ship Yang Wang-5 had come to the Indian Ocean region and was thrown out of the Indian border area.
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