China continued to court Mahinda Rajapaksa even as protests against him began to snowball in Sri Lanka. Photo: Xinhua China continued to court Mahinda Rajapaksa even as protests against him began to snowball in Sri Lanka. Photo: Xinhua
China continued to court Mahinda Rajapaksa even as protests against him began to snowball in Sri Lanka. Photo: Xinhua

China-Sri Lanka relations

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Passive investor to partner in crime: How China lost the plot in Sri Lanka

Chinese investments got sucked into the vortex of Sri Lanka's local politics and were left high and dry when a friendly regime was swept away

Topic |   China-Sri Lanka relations
Debasish Roy Chowdhury
Debasish Roy Chowdhury

Updated: 5:21pm, 22 Dec, 2015

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China continued to court Mahinda Rajapaksa even as protests against him began to snowball in Sri Lanka. Photo: Xinhua China continued to court Mahinda Rajapaksa even as protests against him began to snowball in Sri Lanka. Photo: Xinhua
China continued to court Mahinda Rajapaksa even as protests against him began to snowball in Sri Lanka. Photo: Xinhua
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