Sri Lanka’s prime minister is counting on Beijing to alleviate a shortage of essential goods with the loan of “a few hundred million dollars”, the Financial Times reported.
Ranil Wickremesinghe, who was appointed this month, told the FT that a Chinese loan was being finalised even as his government negotiates a multi-billion-dollar International Monetary Fund bailout.
Read the full report: Financial Times
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