{"id":65169,"date":"2017-04-13T14:43:31","date_gmt":"2017-04-13T21:43:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=65169"},"modified":"2017-04-13T14:43:31","modified_gmt":"2017-04-13T21:43:31","slug":"china-sri-lanka-back-free-trade-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2017\/04\/13\/china-sri-lanka-back-free-trade-talks\/","title":{"rendered":"China, Sri Lanka Back Free Trade Talks"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>by Mary Swire, Tax-News.com, Hong Kong<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Leaders from China and Sri Lanka have voiced support for a proposed bilateral free trade agreement at a recent meeting.<\/p>\n<p>Yu Zhengsheng, Chairman of the People&#8217;s Political Consultative Conference (PPC), was holding talks with Sri Lanka&#8217;s Prime Minister, Ranil Wickremesinghe.<\/p>\n<p>The state news agency, Xinhua, said Yu had called on the two countries to speed up bilateral negotiations towards the pact and expand economic cooperation.<\/p>\n<p>Wickremesinghe responded that he &#8220;looks forward to boosting cooperation with China in the fields of trade, finance, ports and transportation infrastructure.&#8221; He reportedly noted that the Sri Lankan Parliament supports the Belt and Road Initiative, backs the FTA negotiations with China, and expects more friendly exchanges between the two countries.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; See more at: http:\/\/www.tax-news.com\/news\/China_Sri_Lanka_Back_Free_Trade_Talks____73975.html#sthash.aNpEt3V1.dpuf<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Mary Swire, Tax-News.com, Hong Kong Leaders from China and Sri Lanka have voiced support for a proposed bilateral free trade agreement at a recent meeting. Yu Zhengsheng, Chairman of the People&#8217;s Political Consultative Conference (PPC), was holding talks with Sri Lanka&#8217;s Prime Minister, Ranil Wickremesinghe. The state news agency, Xinhua, said Yu had called [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[102],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65169","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=65169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65169\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}