Chinese Foreign Minister’s visit to Maldives, Sri Lanka generates fears of deeper debt-trap: Report

Amid the continuous rise in COVID-19 cases driven by the Omicron variant across the world, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi visited Maldives and Sri Lanka but failed to make gains as nationalist Sri Lankans and Maldivians felt that their sovereignty is being incrementally eroded by China through coercive use of debt-trap diplomacy, said a European-based think tank. Sri Lankans, especially, seemed apprehensive […]