Sri Lanka will make sure no military activity is conducted at its ports, Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe said in Tokyo on Wednesday, as China invests heavily in roads and harbors on the island nation. Current top breaking Philippine headlines regarding the nation, world, metro manila…
TOKYO, Japan — Sri Lanka will make sure no military activity is conducted at its ports, Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe said in Tokyo on Wednesday, as China invests heavily in roads and harbors on the island nation. Beijing, which is fortifying islands in the South China Sea to which it lays claim, has pumped hundreds of millions of dollars in Sri Lanka’s infrastructure since the end of the country’s civil war in 2009, when Colombo was shunned by Western investors over its human rights record. «Sri Lanka hopes to become the regional hub of the Indian Ocean again, » Wickremesinghe told a joint news conference following a meeting with his Japanese counterpart, Shinzo Abe.
