{"id":5684,"date":"2019-03-10T19:15:05","date_gmt":"2019-03-10T19:15:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/?p=5684"},"modified":"2019-03-10T19:15:05","modified_gmt":"2019-03-10T19:15:05","slug":"former-minister-says-china-not-easily-giving-sri-lanka-loans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/former-minister-says-china-not-easily-giving-sri-lanka-loans\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Minister says China not easily giving Sri Lanka loans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">China is not giving Sri Lanka loans as easy as before, a Former Minister told Parliament today.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Former Minister Sarath Amunugama told Parliament today that China used to clear and expedite loans to Sri Lanka in the past.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">However he noted that now China takes time to clear loans and has more conditions attached.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">He said that the main reason for this is because the current Government had been critical of China.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Amunugama also denied claims that China has trapped Sri Lanka in debt.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">He said that Sri Lanka owes more to Japan and not China.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Courtesy: Colombo Gazette<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China is not giving Sri Lanka loans as easy as before, a Former Minister&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5685,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-srilankan-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5684","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=5684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5684\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}