{"id":40499,"date":"2022-01-10T10:17:32","date_gmt":"2022-01-10T01:17:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jan\/10\/sri-lanka-appeals-to-china-to-ease-debt-burden-amid-economic-crisis"},"modified":"2022-01-10T10:17:32","modified_gmt":"2022-01-10T01:17:32","slug":"sri-lanka-appeals-to-china-to-ease-debt-burden-amid-economic-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=40499","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka appeals to China to ease debt burden amid economic crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President urges rescheduling of payments amid food and electricity rationing after pandemic hit tourism sector<\/p>\n<p>Cash-strapped Sri Lanka has sought to reschedule its huge Chinese debt burden in talks with visiting foreign minister Wang Yi, the president\u2019s office said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe president pointed out that it would be a great relief if debt payments could be rescheduled in view of the economic crisis following the pandemic,\u201d President Gotabaya Rajapaksa\u2019s office said in a statement on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jan\/10\/sri-lanka-appeals-to-china-to-ease-debt-burden-amid-economic-crisis\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President urges rescheduling of payments amid food and electricity rationing after pandemic hit tourism sectorCash-strapped Sri Lanka has sought to reschedule its huge Chinese debt burden in talks with visiting foreign minister Wang Yi, the president\u2019s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":206,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,50,61,674],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-south-and-central-asia","category-sri-lanka"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/206"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40499"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40500,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40499\/revisions\/40500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}