{"id":53661,"date":"2016-04-08T21:47:36","date_gmt":"2016-04-09T03:47:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=53661"},"modified":"2016-04-08T07:15:13","modified_gmt":"2016-04-08T14:15:13","slug":"hambantota-project-talks-with-sri-lanka-should-be-speeded-up-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2016\/04\/08\/hambantota-project-talks-with-sri-lanka-should-be-speeded-up-china\/","title":{"rendered":"Hambantota project talks with Sri Lanka should be speeded up: China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BEIJING: China has called for fast-tracking negotiations with Sri Lanka over the USD 750 million second phase of the Hambantota port which in the past caused unease in India over concerns that the project is part Beijing&#8217;s &#8216;string of pearls&#8217; strategy to contain it.<\/p>\n<p>Chinese Premier Li Keqiang, during talks with his Sri Lankan counterpart Ranil Wickremesinghe, said both sides should speed up the negotiations on the second phase operation of the Hambantota Port in the southern part of Sr\u00a0..<\/p>\n<div>Read more at:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/articleshow\/51740601.cms?&amp;utm_source=contentofinterest&amp;utm_medium=text&amp;utm_campaign=cppst\">http:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/articleshow\/51740601.cms?&amp;utm_source=contentofinterest&amp;utm_medium=text&amp;utm_campaign=cppst<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BEIJING: China has called for fast-tracking negotiations with Sri Lanka over the USD 750 million second phase of the Hambantota port which in the past caused unease in India over concerns that the project is part Beijing&#8217;s &#8216;string of pearls&#8217; strategy to contain it. Chinese Premier Li Keqiang, during talks with his Sri Lankan counterpart [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53661","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=53661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53661\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}