China is using Buddhist narratives to promote its soft power in Sri Lanka – and bolster its image as a harmonious regional power.

COLOMBO, March 13 (Xinhua) -- Sri Lanka looks forward to benefiting more from the China-proposed Belt and Road Initiative and is ready to welcome more Chinese investment into the country, Sri Lankan ...

COLOMBO — Sri Lanka's participation in China-proposed Belt and Road Initiative will boost the country's economy and help it attract more foreign direct investment (FDI), participants of the "Sri ...

Samarawickrema said that China had greatly contributed to developing Sri Lanka's economy, especially since the end of the country's 30-year civil conflict, and it had launched projects under the Belt ...

The “Belt and Road Ambassador Scholarship” ceremony is held in Beijing, on July 26. Photo: Courtesy of the Embassy of Sri Lanka in Beijing The Embassy of Sri Lanka in China held a ceremony to ...

China and Sri Lanka have expressed willingness to jointly advance a high-quality development of Belt and Road. This decision had been announced during meetings held here between Sri Lankan leaders and ...

The leaders of Sri Lanka and China have agreed to promote bilateral economic cooperation through Beijing's Belt and Road initiative that aims to build a massive economic zone.

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi is in Sri Lanka seeking to advance Beijing’s ambitious Belt and Road Initiative as the island nation tries to rescue itself from a foreign currency and debt ...

The U.S. announced a $553M project Wednesday to build a deep-water shipping container terminal in Sri Lanka's Port of Colombo as it competes with China in international development financing.

The storming of the presidential palace and ignominious flight of President Gotabay Rajapaksa from Sri Lanka was so dramatic that numerous theories were spun to explain away a routine economic ...

By Tabita Rosendal (The Diplomat) Under China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), a curious entanglement of economic investments and Buddhist diplomacy has been carried out in countries like Sri Lanka.