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Change in China's stance on debt restructuring for Sri Lanka in 2023 unlik
Updated : 2 years, 9 months ago IST
China's Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs Sun Weidong invited Sri Lankan President, Ranil Wickremesinghe, to China for a conference on China's Belt and Road initiative. Wickremesinghe might be trying to go to China to discuss debt restructuring.
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Pitfalls of Chinese investments in Sri Lanka
Updated : 3 years ago IST
China's external lending and even private corporation's activities abroad are dictated by political considerations. Its foreign investment has become a tool for buying geopolitical influence with a detrimental impact on the targeted country's fragile democratic machinery as well as the local
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China's debt moratorium offer to Sri Lanka not sufficient for IMF to appro
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
The IMF needs more assurances from China to secure IMF board approval for the bailout package for Sri Lanka.
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China trying for global Buddhist support in selection of future Dalai Lama
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
According to TRC, China has stepped up its Buddhist outreach to Sri Lanka, which remains a major Buddhist nation and is also targeted by Beijing under its Debt-Trap Diplomacy.
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China threatening Sri Lanka to block potential visit by the Dalai Lama: Re
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
This should be seen as another attempt by CCP at strengthening their position in the reincarnation debate of the Dalai Lama.
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China offers bailout package to Pakistan, refuses to defer loan repayments
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
Both Sri Lanka and Pakistan are caught in China's debt track but while China has offered a bailout package to Pakistan, it has refused to defer loan repayments of Sri Lanka, True Ceylon News reported.
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China acts as impediment to Sri Lanka's IMF deal
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
Debt restructuring is one of the prerequisites of the IMF's bailout package for Sri Lanka. The process is, however, getting delayed due to Sri Lanka's dire situation and a delay in concrete commitment from China, the island nation's largest bilateral lender. Sri Lanka seems to be missing its
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China-backed Colombo port city under scanner over row on visiting charges
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
Colombo [Sri Lanka], February 8 (ANI): China-backed Colombo Port City has again come under the spotlight for wrong reasons after the authorities broke their promise and imposed variable charges on the people visiting the site.
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Chinese Foreign Minister's visit to Maldives, Sri Lanka generates fears of
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
Beijing [China], January 15 (ANI): Amid the continuous rise in COVID-19 cases driven by the Omicron variant across the world, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi visited Maldives and Sri Lanka but failed to make gains as nationalist Sri Lankans and Maldivians felt that their sovereignty is bein
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