{"id":131471,"date":"2023-01-17T17:04:29","date_gmt":"2023-01-18T00:04:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=131471"},"modified":"2023-01-17T17:04:29","modified_gmt":"2023-01-18T00:04:29","slug":"chinese-embassy-slams-us-envoy-chungs-remarks-on-sl-debt-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2023\/01\/17\/chinese-embassy-slams-us-envoy-chungs-remarks-on-sl-debt-issue\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese embassy slams US envoy Chung\u2019s remarks on SL debt issue"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>The Embassy of China in Colombo has slammed the Ambassador of the United States to Sri Lanka, Julie Chung over her remarks during a recent interview with a UK television program on Sri Lanka\u2019s debt issue.<br>\u00a0<br>In a press release, the Chinese embassy dismissed Chung\u2019s comments as baseless accusing and lecturing\u201d and lambasted the US envoy for putting the blame on China for being the spoiler\u201d to Sri Lanka\u2019s negotiations with the International Monetary Fund (IMF).<br>\u00a0<br>Chung recently told BBC Newsnight that the US is hopeful that China would not delay extending support for Sri Lanka\u2019s debt restructuring process, as the island nation does not have time to delay, adding that it needs these assurances immediately. &#8220;For the sake of the Sri Lankan people, we certainly hope China is not a spoiler as they proceed to attain this IMF agreement,\u201d Chung had said further.<br>\u00a0<br>The Chinese embassy stated that it is hypocritical\u201d of the US to play the blame game instead of a self-examination.\u201d<br>\u00a0<br>It also raised concerns as to why the US did not take decisive actions in the IMF for a more comfortable solution for Sri Lanka or extend grant to the island nation with the rocket amount of US dollars they print every year instead of sowing discord between China and Sri Lanka.\u201d<br>\u00a0<br>Both Chinese and Sri Lankan people are wise enough to judge without any foreign lecturing who the spoiler of our development is,\u201d the embassy said further.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana The Embassy of China in Colombo has slammed the Ambassador of the United States to Sri Lanka, Julie Chung over her remarks during a recent interview with a UK television program on Sri Lanka\u2019s debt issue.\u00a0In a press release, the Chinese embassy dismissed Chung\u2019s comments as baseless accusing and lecturing\u201d and lambasted the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131471","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=131471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131471\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}