{"id":60610,"date":"2016-11-09T14:43:38","date_gmt":"2016-11-09T20:43:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=60610"},"modified":"2016-11-09T07:34:39","modified_gmt":"2016-11-09T14:34:39","slug":"president-elect-donald-trump-offers-sri-lanka-an-opportunity-to-reorient-and-strengthen-bilateral-relations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2016\/11\/09\/president-elect-donald-trump-offers-sri-lanka-an-opportunity-to-reorient-and-strengthen-bilateral-relations\/","title":{"rendered":"President-elect Donald Trump offers Sri Lanka an opportunity to reorient and strengthen bilateral relations!"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>By Ananda-USA<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>November 8, 2016<\/p>\n<p>US President-Elect Donald Trump in a very graceful and conciliatory speech promised to be the President of all Americans irrespective of political party and community affiliations, and to pursue a new foreign policy based on treating other nations, who want to co-exist peacefully with the US, with fairness and justice without adopting confrontational policies driven by geopolitical agendas.<\/p>\n<p>He promised to focus on developing America\u2019s deteriorating infrastructure, to revive its manufacturing base, to grow the economy at twice the current rate of growth, and to take care of the needs of the armed forces veterans. It was a truly great speech promising to heal the wounds of the adversarial election campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Sri Lanka Patriots should study his acceptance speech on the Web, and recognize that this US President may provide the opening Sri Lanka needs to gain the understanding and friendship of the United States, without the witch-hunting SL has experienced at the hands of previous US Administrations. We should represent Sri Lanka to him as the oldest functioning democracy in Asia that has fought and defeated a war of survival against foreign-inspired terrorists and, therefore, that Sri Lanka is a natural ally of the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Former President Mahinda Rajapaksa, and the former UPFA government, that fought and won that war of national liberation and reunification, should SEIZE this opportunity to establish good relations with this new US President who promises to completely revise US foreign policy and US diplomatic posture towards other countries. His new vision may be just the opening we need to establish a new alliance with the United States free of the undermining of our country on behalf of separatist minority groups, or in pursuit of geopolitical agendas directed at other countries.<\/p>\n<p>Donald Trump\u2019s election as the new US President could herald a sea-change in the attitude of the United States of the Sinhala Buddhist majority\u2019s difficulties with Western Nations and the UN. The leaders of our country should seize this invaluable opportunity to resolve these difficulties, without draconian conditions that undermine Sri Lanka&#8217;s sovereignty, territorial integrity and economic growth.<\/p>\n<p>Carpe\u2019 Diem!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Ananda-USA November 8, 2016 US President-Elect Donald Trump in a very graceful and conciliatory speech promised to be the President of all Americans irrespective of political party and community affiliations, and to pursue a new foreign policy based on treating other nations, who want to co-exist peacefully with the US, with fairness and justice [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60610","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=60610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60610\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}