The recent outburst of a Tamil parliamentarian over China’s interference in what he says is ‘internal affairs of Sri Lanka’ can have long-term consequences if Beijing persists with its current policy and its embassy in Colombo keeps issuing statements on what is only an ‘internal matter’ of the host-nation. In doing so, three-party Tamil National Alliance (TNA) MP, Shanakiyan Rasamanickam has threatened a ‘Go home, China’ protest on the lines of the successful ‘GotaGoHome’ mass-struggle that forced then president Gotabaya Rajapaksa to flee the country and then quit office. This is the first time that any political leader in the...