Dissanayake faces litmus test as India eyes Sri Lanka energy stakes

Anti-establishment outsider weighs India's offer against island's energy vulnerability

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Employees work on a newly built tank at Ceylon Petroleum's Sapugaskanda Oil Refinery in Colombo on May 11, 2018. Sri Lankan energy industry veterans are pushing back against India's designs on a key deepwater port. (Source photos by Reuters, Kosaku Mimura and Shinya Sawai)

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COLOMBO/NEW DELHI -- India's quest for energy stakes in Sri Lanka has exposed a foreign policy litmus test for President Anura Kumara Dissanayake, a neophyte in geopolitics.

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