“CHINA got Sri Lanka to cough up a port,” said the New York Times in a widely quoted article published recently.
The article claimed that “every time Sri Lanka’s President Mahinda Rajapaksa turned to his Chinese allies for loans and assistance with an ambitious port project, the answer was yes.
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