{"id":1693,"date":"2017-07-29T04:09:52","date_gmt":"2017-07-29T04:09:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/?p=1693"},"modified":"2017-07-29T04:09:52","modified_gmt":"2017-07-29T04:09:52","slug":"sri-lanka-expects-more-chinese-investments-in-the-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/sri-lanka-expects-more-chinese-investments-in-the-country\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka expects more Chinese investments in the country"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Sri Lankan Foreign Minister Ravi Karunanayake has spoken highly of the proposed Belt and Road Initiative, saying that Colombo would like to see more Chinese investments.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The newly-appointed Foreign Minister told Xinhua news agency that China and Sri Lanka had maintained strong ties since ancient times, with the relationship being at its strongest level at present.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">While appreciating the large-scale investments China had brought to Sri Lanka, especially since the end of a civil war between the Government and the LTTE in 2009, Karunanayake said the country would benefit from more Chinese investments.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\u201cWe appreciate the investments that are coming in from China, but we would like to see much more,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sri Lankan Foreign Minister Ravi Karunanayake has spoken highly of the proposed Belt and&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1679,"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-1693","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\/1693","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=1693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1693\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}