They shouldn’t declare an emergency, the evil family that’s misgoverned, fucked over, and stolen from Sri Lanka’s people all this time should GTFO, so democratic elections can be held!
India is trying to outdo China in its alacrity to provide
financial help to Sri Lanka, which is running dangerously low on foreign
reserves to service its debt.
India’s Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar
was in Sri Lanka this week to offer help to the struggling Sri Lankan
economy in an attempt to pry it away from a decades-long Chinese
embrace.
Sri Lanka’s two-year-old economic crisis comes after two
decades of heavy Chinese investment, under what a geopolitical expert
called “strategic trap diplomacy.″
Having
a giant, increasingly assertive neighbor so closely intertwined with
Sri Lanka has unsettled India, which is locked in a standoff with China
at their disputed Himalayan border. Sri Lanka’s economic crisis affords
India an opportunity to wean the country away from Beijing’s influence.
Perched
just off busy East-West shipping lanes, Sri Lanka has drawn billions in
investment under China’s Belt and Road Initiative. The program was
launched in 2013 to build ports, roads, railways, pipelines and other
infrastructure across Asia.
But China has taken over at least one strategic port
when Sri Lanka failed to service its debt. New Delhi won a small but
significant victory Tuesday when it wrested away a power project earlier
granted to China.
India is also trying to outdo China in
its alacrity to provide financial help to Sri Lanka, which is running
dangerously low on foreign reserves to service its debt. According to
central bank data obtained by Reuters, Sri Lanka currently has about $2 billion in foreign exchange reserves against $7 billion in total debt due this year, including $1 billion worth of notes maturing in July. …
Oklahoma has its first confirmed case of the avian flu. The
Oklahoma Department of Agriculture, Food, and Forestry says the case is
in a wild duck in Payne County. The state veterinarian is encouraging
all poultry owners to stay vigilant, practice good biosecurity, and
immediately
report any sick or dying birds. …
A highly contagious bird flu that has been spreading around the
country has been confirmed in North Dakota, in a noncommercial backyard
chicken flock in Kidder County, the state Agriculture
Attempted to Embezzle $332,027 During the Purchase of a New Embassy Building
WASHINGTON – A former ambassador for Sri Lanka pleaded guilty
today to diverting and attempting to embezzle $332,027 from the
government of Sri Lanka during its 2013 purchase of a new embassy
building in Washington, D.C. …
