{"id":64807,"date":"2017-04-02T14:39:19","date_gmt":"2017-04-02T21:39:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=64807"},"modified":"2017-04-02T14:39:19","modified_gmt":"2017-04-02T21:39:19","slug":"ex-president-extends-conditional-support-to-mega-chinese-investment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2017\/04\/02\/ex-president-extends-conditional-support-to-mega-chinese-investment\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-President extends conditional support to mega Chinese investment"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>By Norman Palihawadana\u00a0Courtesy The Island<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span class=\"article_date\">April 2, 2017, 10:48 pm<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Former President Mahinda Rajapaksa has offered conditional support to a mega Chinese investment project in the Hambantota District.<\/p>\n<p>Former President Rajapaksa yesterday told The Island that his support would depend on the Sirisena-Wickremesinghe government and China agreeing to adopt the original investment plan finalised during his administration.<\/p>\n<p>Dismissing allegations that he had planned to sell land in Hambantota to the Chinese, the former President said that during a visit to Beijing last year he had explained the situation. &#8220;The extent of land we planned to hand over in Hambantota was much smaller,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Norman Palihawadana\u00a0Courtesy The Island April 2, 2017, 10:48 pm Former President Mahinda Rajapaksa has offered conditional support to a mega Chinese investment project in the Hambantota District. Former President Rajapaksa yesterday told The Island that his support would depend on the Sirisena-Wickremesinghe government and China agreeing to adopt the original investment plan finalised during [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64807","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=64807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64807\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}