India is helping Sri Lanka reduce its dependence on China, according to Cleo Paskal, an associate fellow at the Asia-Pacific Programme at London-based Chatham House. “India has been extending loans, and it sent fertilizer. It’s been really trying to–again–on the political warfare front, create a situation where Sri Lanka isn’t so dependent on China,” Paskal…

Following in the footsteps of Xiaomi and Vivo, another Chinese tech company has been accused of violating laws in India. The Chinese smartphone giant Guangdong Oppo Mobile Telecommunications Corp., Ltd. (OPPO) is accused of evading more than $571 million in import duties. On July 13, the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI), India’s anti-smuggling agency, issued…

India’s anti-money laundering agency said on Thursday that it seized 119 bank accounts containing 4.65 billion rupees ($58.75 million) from Indian businesses linked with Chinese smartphone maker Vivo for tax evasion. The Indian Enforcement Directorate said that Vivo India remitted 62.47 billion rupees ($7.9 million), or almost 50 percent, of its total turnover outside the…