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Hocus-Pocus: Scrutinizing China’s Alleged Debt-Trap Diplomacy
Jevans Nyabiage, in South China Morning Post, 21 February 2021, with this title ‘Debt-trap diplomacy’ a myth: no evidence China pushes poor nations to seize their assets, says academic There is no evidence China aims to deliberately push poor countries … Continue reading
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Spats about Ports in Sri Lanka: The Bigger Picture
Mick Moore** To the extent that we can make any confident prophesies about world affairs in this very fragile current context, it is reasonable to predict that (a) global political, military, economic and ideological competition between China and the … Continue reading
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Vinodh Wickremeratne’s Jottings as Memoirs on the Past
Vinodh L. J. Wickremeratne describes himself as a Colombologist, a word he has invented to explain his fascination not just with Colombo’s recent history, but also with the prominent people who have contributed so much to the development of Colombo and Sri Lanka Continue reading
