{"id":79540,"date":"2018-07-23T15:11:45","date_gmt":"2018-07-23T22:11:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=79540"},"modified":"2018-07-23T15:11:45","modified_gmt":"2018-07-23T22:11:45","slug":"no-political-string-attached-to-chinese-assistance-to-sri-lanka-spokesperson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2018\/07\/23\/no-political-string-attached-to-chinese-assistance-to-sri-lanka-spokesperson\/","title":{"rendered":"No political string attached to Chinese assistance to Sri Lanka: Spokesperson"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy APP<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>BEIJING, July 23 (APP):A Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson said Monday that no political string is attached to Chinese assistance to Sri Lanka at all, and it serves and benefits all the Sri Lankan people.<br \/>\nNo political string is attached to this assistance at all, and it serves and benefits all people in Sri Lanka,\u201d Geng Shuang said during his routine press briefing when asked to comment on China\u2019s purpose for a financial aid to Sri Lanka.<br \/>\nPresident of Sri Lanka Maithripala Sirisena said that China has pledged 2 billion yuan to be utilized for any project in Sri Lanka.<br \/>\nHe said that China and Sri Lanka enjoy traditional friendship, adding, Over the years, China has provided assistance to Sri Lanka within our best capacity under the framework of South-South cooperation in accordance with its development needs, including such livelihood projects as housing, hospitals and roads, with a view to promoting local socio-economic development.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy APP BEIJING, July 23 (APP):A Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson said Monday that no political string is attached to Chinese assistance to Sri Lanka at all, and it serves and benefits all the Sri Lankan people. No political string is attached to this assistance at all, and it serves and benefits all people in Sri [&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-79540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79540","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=79540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79540\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}