evidence: The "Pearl of the Indian Ocean" – Sri Lanka – may yet become a bone of contention between India and China, following the September 21 presidential election that catapulted Anura Kumara Dissanayake into the top job. [...] The Janatha Vimukthi Perumana (JVP), the extreme left party that Dissanayake leads, has been labeled as pro-Chinese in its approach to foreign policy and is often described as an outfit that continues to oppose policies involving neighboring India. Suffice it to say that the JVP was opposed to Indian military intervention in the island nation’s civil war in the late 1980s. Compared to Dissanayaka’s opponents in the run-up to the presidential race, the NPP’s foreign policy is not being articulated clearly, creating uncertainty about how the new leadership would approach the neighbors and maintain old diplomatic relations with India and China.