{"id":149214,"date":"2025-04-20T09:27:54","date_gmt":"2025-04-20T16:27:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=149214"},"modified":"2025-04-20T09:27:54","modified_gmt":"2025-04-20T16:27:54","slug":"chinese-ambassador-and-pathfinder-founder-discuss-widening-of-china-sri-lanka-relations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2025\/04\/20\/chinese-ambassador-and-pathfinder-founder-discuss-widening-of-china-sri-lanka-relations\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese\u00a0Ambassador and Pathfinder Founder discuss widening of China-Sri Lanka Relations."},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Pathfinder Foundation<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Milinda Moragoda,&nbsp;founder of Pathfinder Foundation met with the Chinese Ambassador Qi&nbsp;Zhenghong&nbsp;to discuss avenues for further widening China-Sri Lanka relations.&nbsp; The meeting over lunch at the residence of&nbsp;Ambassador&nbsp;Qi provided an opportunity for both sides to discuss the prevailing global situation,&nbsp;China-Sri Lanka relations, investment climate in Sri Lanka for Chinese investors and a host of other topical issues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mr. Moragoda briefed Ambassador Qi of the work carried out by the China-Sri Lanka Cooperation Studies Centre of the Pathfinder Foundation and stated that several Chinese delegations&nbsp;will&nbsp;visit the Foundation in the coming weeks, which will enable both sides to better understand the status of relations between the two countries. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He also indicated the desire of the Foundation to work with Chinese institutions interested in interacting with South Asia in general and Sri Lanka in particular.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pathfinder Foundation Chairman Bernard Goonetilleke participated in the discussion&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;the Chinese Ambassador and diplomatic members of the Embassy.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;Pictures 1.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Milinda Moragoda,&nbsp;founder of Pathfinder Foundation met with the Chinese Ambassador H.E. Qi&nbsp;Zhenghong.&nbsp;Bernard Goonetilleke<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chairman, PF also&nbsp;participated in the discussion&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Milinda Moragoda,&nbsp;founder of Pathfinder Foundation met with the Chinese Ambassador H.E. Qi&nbsp;Zhenghong.&nbsp;Bernard Goonetilleke&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chairman, PF and the diplomatic official of the Chinese Embassy&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pathfinder Foundation Milinda Moragoda,&nbsp;founder of Pathfinder Foundation met with the Chinese Ambassador Qi&nbsp;Zhenghong&nbsp;to discuss avenues for further widening China-Sri Lanka relations.&nbsp; The meeting over lunch at the residence of&nbsp;Ambassador&nbsp;Qi provided an opportunity for both sides to discuss the prevailing global situation,&nbsp;China-Sri Lanka relations, investment climate in Sri Lanka for Chinese investors and a host of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-149214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149214","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=149214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149214\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}