{"id":1225,"date":"2017-05-16T02:55:18","date_gmt":"2017-05-16T02:55:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/?p=1225"},"modified":"2017-05-16T02:55:18","modified_gmt":"2017-05-16T02:55:18","slug":"chinese-president-assures-sri-lanka-development-assistance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/chinese-president-assures-sri-lanka-development-assistance\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese President assures Sri Lanka development assistance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese President Xi Jinping today assured Sri Lanka development assistance as the Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation drew to a close in the Chinese capital.<\/p>\n<p>Jinping said that while Sri Lanka is a small island it is an important country in the ports and shipping sector.<\/p>\n<p>Jinping was speaking at a reception held with the participation of several world leaders, including Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe.<\/p>\n<p>Participants in the Leaders Roundtable of the Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation adopted a joint communique and released an outcome list today.<\/p>\n<p>The roundtable summit was part of the two-day forum held on Sunday and Monday and attended by 30 heads of state and Government leaders.<\/p>\n<p>The forum is the most important meeting on the Belt and Road Initiative since Xi first made the proposal in 2013. It is also the largest-scale and highest-level international gathering initiated by China.<\/p>\n<p>Courtesy: Colombo Gazette<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese President Xi Jinping today assured Sri Lanka development assistance as the Belt and&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1226,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-srilankan-news","category-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1225\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}