According to the pilots, when they were attacked electronically, all the instruments in the cabin were chaotic. It was these devices that caused the short-term loss of control of the U.S. Finally, they mobilized reconnaissance satellites to discover that many electronic jamming devices appeared on the islands and reefs in the South China Sea. In this regard, the United States was at a loss as to why this happened. All fighters over the South China Sea withdrew. Then the US military ordered the request. These warplanes were all out of control midway, but these warplanes were out of control for only a few seconds. Just now, the US CNBC website reported that several US Growler electronic warplanes were mysteriously attacked when they flew to the South China Sea again. Unexpectedly, it lost control halfway, and the U.S. fighter plane flew over the South China Sea again. “They wanted to show how power plants help develop the country.Just now, the U.S. “They showed us power plants and said that there won’t be any environmental impact,” Rahmatullah said of his trip. The Puttalam plant meets half of Sri Lanka’s electricity demand, but some residents have opposed it, saying it had caused air and noise pollution. Muhshi Rahmathullah, a former councillor in the northwestern town of Puttalam where China Machinery Engineering Corporation built a 900 MW coal-fired power station, said he was among a group of 15 people who went on a company-funded tour of China. To explain the sheer scale of the Belt and Road Initiative, Beijing has taken Sri Lankan politicians, journalists and local residents on tours to China. “But they are also doing a lot more of soft-power diplomacy.” There’s no one stopping them, in the end,” said an Asian diplomat. “Their focus has been unrelenting even over the last few years their projects have all gone through. When Sri Lanka was unable to pay back the loan on the port, it was forced to hand over control to China on a 99-year lease in 2017.Ĭhina Harbour Engineering Company is already building a $1.4 billion port city next to Colombo port that is designed to be a financial centre with hotels, marinas and even a motor racing track on land reclaimed from the sea. The new southern port of Hambantota, near one of the world’s busiest shipping lanes, cost $1.4 billion and kicked off a major post-war construction boom. At the moment, we are struggling for routine checkups and dialysis,” said Lakmal Prasad, 27, a former state employee who’s already had a kidney transplant.Ĭhina has also completed two water facilities in a parched part of the island, while a third, the biggest, is nearing completion and will supply clean drinking water to villages in the Puttalam area.īut China’s biggest interest lies in mega-projects. “It is really a good project because of the number of people who are suffering in this area.
expect our companies to help the Sri Lankan people with donations and corporate social responsibility work,” China’s ambassador to Sri Lanka, Cheng Xueyuan, said last month after inviting local journalists on a tour of the big Chinese investment projects on the island.Īt Polonarruwa, where the kidney hospital is due to open early next year, families say their struggle to get treatment should ease once they have an alternative to over-stretched local hospitals.
Water plants and a Chinese radio station promoting its economic and social programmes are part of the campaign to win over doubters.Ĭhina has invested an estimated $11 billion in Sri Lanka, around $8 billion in the form of loans related to Xi’s signature “Belt and Road Initiative” designed to boost trade and transport links across Asia.Chinese firms, employing thousands of local workers, have built a giant port and plan to construct power stations and expressways as well.īut the terms of some of those projects have drawn criticism from politicians in Sri Lanka and overseas and led to policy reversals that have stalled China’s ambitions on the Indian Ocean island. The hospital, specialising in kidney-related diseases, is helping China gain popular support in a country where its mega-projects have added to rising debt and raised concerns about excessive economic and political leverage. Its perimeter walls are adorned with pictures of China’s president Xi Jinping and prime minister Li Keqiang, along with Sri Lankan leaders hailing the $67 million (51.8 million pounds) gift from Beijing. A general view of Colombo Port City construction site, which is backed by Chinese investment is seen, in Colombo, Sri Lanka November 5, 2018.
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