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China’s Role in Sri Lanka’s Debt Crisis

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Does China Play a Role in the Debt Trap Diplomacy?

i want to ask you, in the context of what you have just described, a little bit about china. China has extended over the years both government debt as well as infstructure financing through china's development banks. Part of the money silanka took on from china er did go into good projects, right? So parts of the southern express way fo, for instance. It the south of the country, a fantastic connectivity between the capital of columbo and many districts in the south. But of course, many other parts of chinese money went into not so great projectsar, like the lotus tower. All of these were made in the raja paa family's

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