Sri Lanka's crisis and its relationship with China
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Srilenka's Foreign Debt
Srilenka owes money to a number of countries. Japan also lent the money, and also china. What rule does china have in all this? Yes, solanka owes a round 35 billion er dollars to a variety of foreign lenders. And china actually is not a huge portion of that. It accounts for around ten %, 15% of shalanke's foreign debt. But what's unique, in a way, about china is that it is most closely associated with the er government of gottabaia,. The very recently ousted presidentand china has had very strong ties to the raja paxa family since around two thousand and five when got
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