What's Next for Srilanka?

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Silanka is shaping up to be the canary in the coal mine for what could become a global crises of large number of developing countries saddled by lot of debt. Someran, this economic crisis in srilanka turned into a political crisisnd, now there's a political vacuum. Ah, what happens next? Who can replace rajah paxa? The one figure who is relatively neutral in this is probably the speaker of the house of the parliament. But he is a sort of a dull, colorless figure, so i'm not sure whether he might be the one to settle into the presidential chair. It's a wild guess out there. And that's, unfortunately

Former UK chancellor Rishi Sunak and foreign secretary Liz Truss have emerged as the favourites to replace prime minister Boris Johnson, and more details have been revealed in the murder of Japan’s former prime minister, Shinzo Abe. Plus, Nikkei Asia’s Marwaan Macan-Markar explains how Sri Lanka’s economic and political crises could foreshadow similar issues in other debt-ridden countries.

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