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China  / India  / South Asia  / Sri Lanka
India’s Foreign Policy Progress in Sri Lanka is a Strategic Setback for China
Posted On July 31, 2023
It was only a year ago that Sri Lanka dominated international headlines, as its worst economic crisis in more than 70 years contributed to severe domestic strife, including deadly riots, and severe shortages of fuel, food and critical medicine. The crisis was created by a confluence of domestic policy blunders under the Rajapaksa clan, on whose watch Sri Lanka’s burden of foreign debt had grown to nearly insurmountable levels, a significant proportion of it owed to Chinese creditors. Sri Lanka’s economic troubles had been known for some time, but the Rajapaksas were unwilling to seek assistance from the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
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Cambodia  / China  / East Asia  / Japan  / Southeast Asia
Cambodia a Focus of Sino-Nippon Rivalry
October 14, 2020

Last week, Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen, speaking at the opening of a US$85 million amusement park funded by a Chinese company in Kandal Province (and repeated in a barely-noticed tweet, posed a simple question, “I would like to ask that, if China doesn’t build roads and bridges, who will instead?”