However, China and Sri Lanka broke through numerous obstacles and signed the historically significant Rubber-Rice Pact, opening the door to friendly relations between the two countries.

The 2025 China-South Asia Forum on Poverty Reduction and Development Cooperation took place in Colombo on May 15, bringing together over 80 participants, including government officials, diplomats, ...

Colombo, May 2 (Daily Mirror) - China is among the countries which are ready to help Sri Lanka join the BRICS coalition in the future, a bloc with economies which account for an estimated 37.3% of ...

India finds itself surrounded by countries that are actively engaging with China. The reputation of Sri Lanka's president for being accommodating towards China has raised concerns in New Delhi ...

became the first Asia-Pacific country since the late 1990s to default, sparking an economic crisis. While Japan is Sri Lanka's largest creditor, about 10% of its debt is held by China, which lent ...

Payment on $51 billion of debt to China, Japan and other foreign lenders was suspended. Sri Lanka and other poor Asian countries welcome Chinese financing. The Asian Development Bank says the ...

The Sri Lankan first lady accompanied her husband on his four-day trip to China ... of Sri Lanka Mahinda Rajapakse on Wednesday, pledging to make progress in developing the two countries ...

And China’s 2024 surplus is even bigger than Sri Lanka’s total trade of US$3.985b with other countries under the generalised system of preference terms, separate data from the Central Bank of Sri ...

He then travelled to China, which is also the island's largest single lender. Beijing was the first to restructure its loans to Sri Lanka after the country declared a sovereign default in April ...

Moreover, the Chinese company has also indicated that the will be available for sale to countries like Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Egypt, which are partners in China’s Belt and Road project ...