Sri Lanka: Debt Trap Diplomacy & Putin Price Hikes? Or Something Else?

Sri Lanka’s dire economic and political conflict is being blamed by the Western media on Chinese “debt trap diplomacy” and “Putin Price Hikes,” however buried within the same Western media sources, is the truth.

References:

Reuters – Sri Lanka faces U.N. scrutiny over civil war crimes:
https://www.reuters.com/article/sri-l…

WaPo – Sri Lanka’s long, tragic history of violence:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/…

NYT – Tamil Guerrillas in Sri Lanka: Deadly and Armed to the Teeth:
http://www.nytimes.com/1998/03/07/wor…

NYT – C.I.A. Arms for Syrian Rebels Supplied Black Market, Officials Say:
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/27/wo…

WaPo – Private donations give edge to Islamists in Syria, officials say:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/…

Wikileaks Cables:
https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/04…
https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/06…
https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/04…
https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/08…
https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/08…

Atlas of Economic Complexity – Sri Lanka 2019:
https://atlas.cid.harvard.edu/explore…

ABC News – China becomes wild card in Sri Lanka’s debt crisis:
https://abcnews.go.com/International/….

VOA – As Crisis-Hit Sri Lanka Counts Cost of Chinese Projects, India Moves to Recover Influence:
https://www.voanews.com/a/as-crisis-h…

DW – Sri Lanka’s foreign debt default:
https://www.dw.com/en/sri-lankas-fore…

Nikkei Asia – Sri Lanka’s international bondholders brace for a haircut:
https://asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/Mar….

The Diplomat – The Belt and Road in Sri Lanka: Beyond the Debt Trap Discussion:
https://thediplomat.com/2020/05/the-b…

Diplomat – Is Sri Lanka Under Gotabaya Rajapaksa Really Tilting Toward China?:
https://thediplomat.com/2022/02/is-sr…

Daily FT – Cabinet greenlights $480m MCC COmpact Deal with US:
https://www.ft.lk/TOP-STORY/Cabinet-g…

MCC – About:
https://www.mcc.gov/about

Colombo Telegraph – The Dangers of the Millennium Challenge Corporation Agreement:
https://www.colombotelegraph.com/inde…

Sunday Island Online – Sajith says he objected to MCC:
https://island.lk/sajith-says-he-obje…

The Week – Sajith Premadasa attacked as Rajapaksa supporters clash with protesters:
https://www.theweek.in/news/world/202…

Sajith Premadasa/Twitter:
https://twitter.com/sajithpremadasa

NED – Sri Lanka 2021:
https://www.ned.org/region/asia/sri-l…

Centre for Equality and Justice/Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/CEJ.SL

Viluthu on Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/viluthusrila…

Verite Research on Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/VeriteResearch/

Verite Research Executive Nishan de Mel on Twitter:
https://twitter.com/ncdemel

M.A. Sumanthiran’s anti-China speech in parliament:
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?ref=e…

The Morning – Red light for China, green for India:
https://www.themorning.lk/red-light-f…

Uva Shakthi Foundation/Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/L186012000/