• Southern Boy@lemmy.mlOP
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    4 hours ago

    This article has literally no basis for this other than “Western critics blame the president for being too leftist and Chinese” and it’s a pro-western Taiwanese source that simply parrots AP/AFP

    Are you serious rn?

    • protist
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      3 hours ago

      In December 2017, unable to repay a huge Chinese loan, Sri Lanka handed its Hambantota port in the south of the island to a Beijing company on a 99-year lease for US$1.12 billion.

      This is just the reality, my friend. You can look past western propaganda but seem to really struggle with anti-western propaganda.