Sri Lanka's crisis and its relationship with China
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How Did Srulanka Get to This Point?
The sholanka was a huge success story in south asia, but even in the wider asia pacific. It was basically the up and coming tourist destination in asia. There has been a huge amount of shortages of very basic things across the country. People are understandably desperate and understandably angry. Can you help me understand the context? Yes, o, it's only a mate years ago. The war in ukraine, which sends fuel and other commodity prices sky rocketine, just as sralanka is struggling already to pay for things. And so it was thes kind of three economic er pressures that all hid at once the really devastated economy that was already in a pretty
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