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West Enables China’s Suffocating Embrace of the Sri Lankan Economy

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Aug 26, 2016
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With Sri Lanka still emerging from the ruins of a 26 year civil war that ended in 2009, the government in Colombo is once again turning to China as the only option at its disposal to modernize the economy by introducing sweeping infrastructural development projects.

The story of the Sri Lankan capital’s hopes to transform itself into an “international fi…

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