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I refer to Mr G. A.D Sirimal’s response, to my earlier comments on subject of China’s Grip. While thanking Mr Sirimal (Mr S) for his response I also wish to say that I am sorry for failing to read his earlier letter where he named the African Research Assistant. Let us leave that failing on my part aside.
I am somewhat puzzled by Mr S’s and this African Research Assistant’s claim that China tried to ‘gain a foothold in the affairs of a country’. I assume that what is meant here is not gaining a foothold in a country physically, but making use of the opportunity to influence a country’s policies and activities in some way. If that is accepted, can we hear of some specific instances of attempts by this country to to do that? To my knowledge, there have been no such instances reported in Sri Lanka. Please correct me if I am wrong.
Posted on July 16th, 2021
By Rohana R. Wasala
Few
in the present government seem to understand that they are holding in their
hands the hopelessly misshapen product – a generally weakened Sri Lankan state,
that is, a country hamstrung in terms of its national security, economy, its
internal cohesion, and external relations – left by the yahapalanaya
molestation of the nation (2015-19), a critical situation compounded by the
havoc caused by the extraneous hydra headed monster of the deadly Covid-19
pandemic with its protean forms. The deformed baby is still awaiting emergency
corrective surgery. But unfortunately, the handful of surgeons led by their
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