Chinese Footprints In South Asia: The Sri Lanka Experience

Team StratNews
February 3, 2020
7 minutes read

During his visit to Sri Lanka last month, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi (left) met Sri Lankan Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa. (Photo: @BRI_SL)

In June last year, Sri Lanka’s external debt reached an all-time high of US $55.5 billion—a drain on an already struggling economy made worse by the deadly Easter Sunday bombings in April that numbed tourism, one of the mainstays of the economy, and jolted investor confidence....Read More