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Sri Lanka’s significant role in the Indian Ocean Region – By Arundathie Abeysinghe Image Source : britannica “Whoever controls the Indian Ocean will dominate Asia. This ocean is the key to the seven seas. In the 21st century, the destiny of the world will be decided on its waters”. – American naval strategist Alfred Thayer Mahan Since time immemorial, the Indian Ocean Region (IOR) has been a significant location, the world’s third-largest body of water, a theatre of strategic competition and power politics, a tangled web of power struggles of great powers, mainly due to its economic impact in the east-west maritime trade as the Ocean provides a link between the East and the West, in the form of vital sea lines of communication (SLOCs) nurturing the world’s economy. Extending from the Strait of Malacca and western coast of Australia in the East to the Mozambique Channel in the West, the ...