{"id":106006,"date":"2020-08-28T15:30:15","date_gmt":"2020-08-28T22:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=106006"},"modified":"2020-08-28T15:30:15","modified_gmt":"2020-08-28T22:30:15","slug":"can-you-name-a-port-airport-major-road-bridge-conference-hall-power-station-dam-irrigation-system-or-refinery-sri-lanka-received-from-usa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/08\/28\/can-you-name-a-port-airport-major-road-bridge-conference-hall-power-station-dam-irrigation-system-or-refinery-sri-lanka-received-from-usa\/","title":{"rendered":"Can You Name a Port, Airport, Major Road, Bridge, Conference Hall, Power Station, Dam, Irrigation System or Refinery Sri Lanka Received from USA?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Dilrook Kannangara<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Another way\nto look at the MCC is to consider how USA helped Sri Lanka progress towards its\ndevelopment goals in the past 200 years of close relationship\u201d between the two\ncountries. Can anyone name a port, airport, any major road or bridge,\nconference hall, power station, a dam or irrigation scheme, boat shed, ship\nyard, vehicle plant or a refinery Sri Lanka received from USA? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>None!\nNothing! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is the report\ncard of US contribution to Sri Lanka\u2019s development.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>China,\nJapan, EU countries, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Israel and even South Africa have\nhelped Sri Lanka built capability and infrastructure to support its development\nobjectives. USA never did and never will. MCC is no exception. It is not for\nSri Lanka\u2019s benefit. It is solely for USA\u2019s military expansion at the expense\nof Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>USA has\nspent money in Sri Lanka mostly doing useless and destructive work in pitting\nethnic communities against each other, Americanization of Sri Lanka\u2019s\ngovernance, dragging the island nation into US geopolitical conflicts and\ncontinuing slavery-based outdated industries like garments. Even the so-called\nUS aid to import wheat was insufficient on one hand and destructive of local\nagriculture on the other.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Expecting\nany benefit to come from the MCC deal with USA is simply insane. It is not\nintended to benefit Sri Lanka any way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dilrook Kannangara Another way to look at the MCC is to consider how USA helped Sri Lanka progress towards its development goals in the past 200 years of close relationship\u201d between the two countries. Can anyone name a port, airport, any major road or bridge, conference hall, power station, a dam or irrigation scheme, boat [&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-106006","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\/106006","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=106006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106006\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}