{"id":9317,"date":"2020-07-22T04:10:43","date_gmt":"2020-07-22T04:10:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/?p=9317"},"modified":"2020-07-22T04:10:43","modified_gmt":"2020-07-22T04:10:43","slug":"china-contradicts-comments-by-mr-on-hambantota","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/china-contradicts-comments-by-mr-on-hambantota\/","title":{"rendered":"China contradicts comments by MR on Hambantota"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">China has contradicted comments made by Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa on the Hambantota Port.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The Chinese Embassy in Sri Lanka tweeted yesterday saying the port is 100 percent owned by Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa has raised strong criticism over the decision taken by the former Government to hand over the Hambantota Port to China on a 99-year lease.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Speaking at an election rally in Mahiyangana over the weekend, the Prime Minister accused the former Government of selling off property owned by Sri Lanka to a foreign country.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">He also questioned the silence of some then Ministers when the Hambantota agreement was signed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\u201cThey could have objected to the agreement at the time,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">However, the Chinese Embassy tweeted saying consecutive Governments in Sri Lanka invited Chinese companies to build and jointly operate the Hambantota Port.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The Embassy said that that the deal ensures 100 Sri Lanka ownership, defence and sovereignty.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Following the signing of an agreement in December 2017 the Hambantota port operations were handed over to Hambantota International Port Group (HIPG) and Hambantota International Port Services (HIPS).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Courtesy: Colombo Gazette<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China has contradicted comments made by Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa on the Hambantota Port.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":9318,"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-9317","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\/9317","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=9317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9317\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}