Sri Lanka Crisis Will Last At Least Two More Years
Sri Lanka will have to endure its unprecedented economic hardships for at least two more years, the country’s finance minister said while warning of an imminent cash crunch. Read More Here
Category: South Asia
Sri Lanka’s Rajapaksa Leadership Won’t Step Down
Despite the mass unrest and historically low popularity ratings, the Rajapaksas have so far refused to leave office. With enough legislators to resist impeachment and the tacit support of the military, the current leadership is unlikely to step down on anyone else’s terms. Read More Here
Sri Lanka’s Oppressive Stability Starts To Crumble
Facing Sri Lanka’s worst economic crisis, the Rajapaksa family’s appeals to national security and Sinhala Buddhist nationalism may no longer be enough to keep them in power. Read More Here
Sri Lanka’s All-Powerful Rajapaksas Under Fire As Economic Crisis Worsens
Anger is boiling over in Sri Lanka at the country’s worst economic crisis since independence in 1948, much of it directed at the island nation’s all-powerful ruling Rajapaksa family. Read More Here
France, China Fuelling India, Pakistan Sub Race
In an apparent underwater warfare tit-for-tat, India and Pakistan are bolstering their conventional submarine fleets with French and Chinese assistance respectively. Read More Here
Indebted Sri Lanka Extends A Begging Bowl To China
Sri Lanka’s turn to China amid the island nation’s worst economic crisis in decades risks surrendering more long-term sovereignty in exchange for a short-term financial lifeline. Colombo’s slip into what many critics have characteriSed as a China “debt trap” could see Beijing deepen its strategic footprint in the Indian Ocean, significantly at a time the […]
America Should Bet On Bangladesh
Bangladesh’s motivations are less about growing fondness for China, however, and more about geopolitical realities in South Asia and long-term dissatisfaction with India. Read More Here
Sri Lanka’s Simmering Twin Crises
Growing tension with India and the West has further pushed Sri Lanka into China’s embrace. Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s government increasingly sees a friend in China who can bring much needed foreign exchange to Colombo. Since the pandemic struck in 2020, Beijing has provided crucial and timely economic and health aid support. China provided over US $2 billion […]
The Paradoxes Of The Bangladesh Miracle
After emerging poor and devastated from its independence struggle 50 years ago, Bangladesh has managed to become a global paragon of economic development. While the country’s success is the result of many factors, two distinctive features of its political economy stand out. Read More Here
Our Responsibility To South Asia
Future generations will remember what the world did, or failed to do, in the face of South Asia’s devastating second wave of the virus. India and its neighbours desperately need more vaccines, oxygen, and other supplies, and it is in everyone else’s interest to provide them as fast as possible. Read Here | Project Syndicate
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