{"id":101141,"date":"2020-04-14T17:17:49","date_gmt":"2020-04-15T00:17:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=101141"},"modified":"2020-04-14T17:18:21","modified_gmt":"2020-04-15T00:18:21","slug":"indian-communities-in-sri-lanka-spreading-anti-china-hate-condemned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/04\/14\/indian-communities-in-sri-lanka-spreading-anti-china-hate-condemned\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian Communities in Sri Lanka Spreading Anti-China Hate Condemned"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Dilrook Kannangara<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>China-bashing has raised its ugly head again. A section of Sri Lankans displays their anti-China hatred at any given moment. The twitter account of the Chinese embassy in Colombo was not functioning for some time and it was made into a China-bashing event. To their misfortune and for the fortune of most Sri Lankans, it soon came back live. The same group demonizes China for helping Sri Lanka financially.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>China is Sri Lanka\u2019s closest ally economically, politically, socially and militarily. Economically because Chinese investments have transformed Sri Lanka into what it is today. However, a section of Sri Lankans openly abhors China for no fault of the People\u2019s Republic. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That is\nbecause they are Indian communities living in Sri Lanka making up around 23% of\nthe population. Their sympathisers also join them in bashing China. The\nmajority community loves China and wants to further strengthen bilateral\nrelations. It is important to distinguish this ethnic difference. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If not for\nChinese funded Mattala airport, Sri Lanka would not have a back-up\ninternational airport. The need for a back-up international airport was very\nstrongly felt during the time Tamil terrorists attacked the only international\nairport at that time (Rathmalana in 1978 and Katunayake in 1986, 2001 and\n2007). If not for Chinese investments in power generation, Sri Lanka would be\nhaving power cuts every day. If not for China, Sri Lanka would not have international\nstandard conference halls, roads and internet facilities. Politically China has\nstayed out of interfering in Sri Lanka\u2019s domestic affairs which is commendable\nwhen India, USA and others try poking their dirty fingers into to everything\nunder the sun.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chinese\nsupplies were essential to defeat Indian funded Tamil terrorists and bring\npeace to Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Presence of\nChina in UN Security Council has brought some stability to otherwise unstable\nworld where might is right.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Given this context it must be stated in black and white that\nthe majority community in Sri Lanka support and is grateful for China. Only the\nIndian minority communities lead the charge against China. It is understandable\ngiven the Indian animosity towards China.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dilrook Kannangara China-bashing has raised its ugly head again. A section of Sri Lankans displays their anti-China hatred at any given moment. The twitter account of the Chinese embassy in Colombo was not functioning for some time and it was made into a China-bashing event. To their misfortune and for the fortune of most Sri [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dilrook-kannangara"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101141\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}