Will Biden’s US accept not to be alone at the top?
TO BELT AND ROAD INITIATIVE
An Update (January 2020)
Dr. Jacques COULARDEAU
Our final and main objective was, in 2016, to consider the emergence of the Indian Ocean as the center of 21st-century maritime container commerce with Sri Lanka as the hub and Africa becoming an essential vector. […]
Mahinda Rajapaksa was defeated in 2015 by a coalition of some secessionists from his party and the right. For five years this alliance, Maithripala Sirisena as President and Ranil Wickremesinghe as Prime Minister, systematically froze for two to three years all the projects, particularly the Colombo Port City and the harbor of Hambantota, which brought the growth rate down, and they disbanded the security policy of Gotabaya Rajapaksa, which led to the Islamic terror attack of Easter 2019 against Catholic churches and against hotels, bringing the country to stagnation.
This also led to a landslide victory of Gotabaya Rajapaksa on November 18, 2019, and the newly elected President called his brother, Mahinda Rajapaksa, for the post of Prime Minister. This new administration is going back to the economic and diplomatic tables and pushing all negotiations with India and China, first of all, but also with numerous other countries from Pakistan to Russia, from Japan to Singapore, from Dubai to South East Asia, to redynamise the country and to revitalize its tourist industry.[…]
Dr. Jacques COULARDEAU
