Lai Zhenping, who had talked about the Chinese naval base in Gwadar Port, came to Sri Lanka this time. The country is still in turmoil, with two main ethnic groups on the island of Sri Lanka, with the Sinhalese being the dominant ones living in the more economically developed areas of the west and south, while the Tamils have a smaller population and live in the north and east.

During the colonial period, in order to divide and balance Sri Lanka and achieve their best control, the British immigrated a large number of Tamils from India to Sri Lanka.

In 1956, Sri Lanka's prime minister declared Sinhala the country's only official language, causing discontent among Tamils. The Tamils formed the United Liberation Front (UMLF) and demanded independence in the northern and eastern parts of the country where they lived. However, in the midst of the relatively non-violent but hostile conflict between the two communities, a number of young radicals slowly formed groups, the most famous of which were the LTTE. The LTTE is ideologically radical and extreme, and its main means of fulfilling its political demands is not negotiation and communication, but violent activities, mainly assassinations and terrorist activities.

In 1983, the LTTE orchestrated an attack in which 13 government soldiers were killed on the Jaffna peninsula. This led to outrage among the Sinhalese crowd, who took out their anger at some Tamils and took revenge in an organized manner, which eventually led to large-scale riots. At least hundreds of people have died in the riots, and Tamils living in Sinhalese-majority areas have had to flee their homes.

This was followed by more violent actions by the LTTE. They carried out a policy of ethnic cleansing in the Tamil enclaves in the north-east, and many Sinhalese villages were completely destroyed and all Sinhalese were slaughtered, men, women and children. They also hijack buses and rush down the streets, shooting at whomever they want. They don't even care that they kill their own compatriots in order to provoke a larger ethnic conflict and vendetta between Sinhala and Tamil.

The LTTE has also repeatedly used suicide attacks such as bomb trucks to attack civilian facilities in Colombo and other places, and it is precisely because of the extreme use of the LTTE that although the so-called goal of the LTTE to seek national independence is recognized by some Westerners, their methods are despised by the countries of the world, and many countries have listed the LTTE as a terrorist organization.

In 1987, India intervened in Sri Lanka and clashed with the LTTE, which has been engaged in a long-running dispute over the Jaffna Peninsula in the northern part of the island. Government forces, for their part, withdrew from the area and returned to the south to confront the rebel FNLF.

It was at this time that Lai Zhenping, as a representative of China, came with sincerity and kindness.

Sri Lanka is a small country with a rather peculiar phenomenon, and there are more communist and socialist political forces in the country, such as the Sri Lankan CP, the Sri Lanka People's Liberation Front, etc. In the sixties, the CP of the country made a very pragmatic judgment that the main task to be accomplished at this stage was the bourgeois-democratic revolution, and therefore it was necessary to establish a united front with the bourgeois progressive strata and to turn the parliament into an instrument of socialism for the people. Therefore, the country's CP joined the ruling coalition early and seized power through Western-style democratic elections.

The situation of the People's Liberation Front is more complicated, it was born out of the CP, but for a certain period of time it was more radical. Before the 90s, the main programme of the PPLA was to seize power through armed struggle and realize the people's democratic dictatorship. From this point of view, it's a pity that the People's Formation is not called CP.

Rohana, the founder of the PFLP? Vigewila studied in the former Soviet Union, but he was not satisfied with the Soviet model, believing that corruption was rampant and the system was rigid, and that the Soviet Union, although it was large, would end sooner or later. As a result, the PPLA began to absorb some of Guevara's "one revolution" theory and the **** theory from China, and gradually took armed struggle as the first priority.

One of the most important tasks of Lai Zhenping's visit to Sri Lanka was to help Sri Lanka solve the problem of civil strife. After all, as an "advanced socialist country" and the birthplace of many red revolutions, the CPC is also relatively influential in the PFLP. Lai Zhenping and Rohana? Vijaweera met to extend greetings and expressed the hope that Sri Lanka would be able to complete political reconciliation and choose a model of communication, understanding and inclusiveness to develop and build its own country.

In this matter, Lai Zhenping made another beautiful balance. He came to Sri Lanka with a large amount of military aid, and at the same time he wanted to gain an international reputation for China to mediate the conflict. Although China claims not to interfere in the internal affairs of other countries, it is obviously contrary to this principle to actively participate in international affairs and maintain peace. So how to do it, in fact, it's all in a thought.

Lai Zhenping said to the Sri Lankan government, "I have come with military aid, and if you want to, you must accept our terms of reconciliation, reach a ceasefire agreement with the PPLA, and no longer hold the PPLAP accountable, and accept the PPLA into the ruling coalition." If Sri Lankan officials do not agree, then such a large amount of military aid will naturally fail.

Lai Zhenping also said to the PPLA side that I have come with military aid because I must see the two sides turn hostility into peace, and if the PPLA does not agree to lay down its arms and stop the armed struggle, then I will quickly transfer the military aid to the government army, and then the fall of the PPLA will be extremely rapid.

Rohana? Vijavila naturally couldn't deal with such a complicated situation, so he could only agree to Lai Zhenping's conditions. However, Vijavila also asked a lot of theoretical questions, such as why China has abandoned the strategy of supporting other countries' red forces in armed struggle, and what should be the path of socialism that is truly suitable for Sri Lanka.

Lai Zhenping naturally could not answer them all for him, but he was also prepared, gave Vigevira some English anthologies, and said to him: "This is an explanation of the true meaning of the development of the communist movement and socialism in the world at the present stage by a very influential and talented theoretical worker in our party, and it has become a must-read material for my CPC members, and I hope it can be helpful to the People's Front." ”

Vijavila is like a treasure, holding that stack of books like a country boy who has been given the Nine Yin True Scripture, the Eighteen Palms of the Dragon Descending or something, and everyone is very respectful of the red theory that completed these books, and they are busy reading the book - Qi Jingren.

Lai Zhenping helped Sri Lanka to fight the war and brought a large number of weapons, which made the Sri Lankan officials rush to him and respect him as if he were a guest, not only giving him super-standard courtesy, basically giving everything he could, but also praising China internationally as a firm force for maintaining peace and stability in the world and a major country in the world in charge.

Compared with the military aid to Pakistan and Myanmar, the military aid to Sri Lanka is actually much lower, but the amount is staggering. 200,000 Type 56 and Type 81 automatic rifles decommissioned by the PLA, as well as a series of light weapons that China has retired but have not yet reached the end of their lifespan, with tens of millions of rounds of ammunition; More than 300 howitzers, cannons, and anti-aircraft guns of various types were manufactured before the 80s; More than 200 Type 59 tanks and Type 63 amphibious/non-amphibious armored transport vehicles that have also been retired and have not been disposed of by crushing cranes; 12 J-7 interceptors that were also not recovered by the crushing crane.

Although all of these equipment are second-hand equipment, the total value added up is quite a lot. In addition, Pakistan is an ally that Qi Yiming has focused on cultivating, not to mention Myanmar, which is actually a puppet country, and the fertilizer and water do not flow into the fields of outsiders. Sri Lanka naturally needs to be carefully managed, but paying a lot of money in one go will not only surprise the world community about why China is so broad, but also form the impression that China is a big wrongdoer.

Lai Zhenping naturally could not have come to be a boy of good money, in fact, like Pakistan, he also put forward a port request for Sri Lanka. China wants to take the port of Hambantota in southern Sri Lanka and follow Pakistan's example by acquiring the right to operate the port and garrison it for 20 years. Naturally, unlike some Western countries, China is not interested in building a concession on other people's land, making a country within a country. For example, the United States, the United Kingdom, and other countries like to play this game very much, and they have to take out extraterritoriality and everything, which makes it impossible for some countries to punish foreign criminals on their own soil.

China's move has naturally aroused strong dissatisfaction and backlash from India, before China has made a hole in Pakistan, and now it has to make another hole in Sri Lanka, India suddenly feels that it has become unsafe all around, if the Chinese navy is really stationed in Gwadar and Hambantota ports, then the Indian Navy will not be able to dominate the Indian Ocean at all, and when it encounters China, which is much stronger than India, it can only be a turtle with a shrunken head.

At this time, India still had troops in Sri Lanka to help Sri Lanka offset a large part of the crisis. Gandhi threatened Sri Lanka that if Sri Lanka agreed to open the port of Hambantota to China, relations between the two countries would be damaged and India would not continue to help Sri Lanka maintain peace in the north.

Not to be outdone, Lai Zhenping immediately met with Sri Lankan officials and said: "Where is there any peace in the northern province, India's incompetent peacekeeping forces have not been able to completely exterminate the LTTE until now, and the undisciplined Indian army has repeatedly committed human rights violations there, local women have been ****ed, and property has been robbed, which will cause the residents there to hate the official government even more." ”

Immediately Lai Zhenping rolled his eyes again and made a suggestion: "If India really withdraws, I don't think there is much of a problem, I know a private security company with strong international strength, which can handle such a situation, and the cost will not be particularly high. ”

Sri Lankan officials were also stunned, "You mean, mercenaries? ”