{"id":82534,"date":"2018-10-29T13:25:46","date_gmt":"2018-10-29T20:25:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=82534"},"modified":"2018-10-29T13:25:46","modified_gmt":"2018-10-29T20:25:46","slug":"china-avoids-commenting-on-lankan-crisis-saying-its-an-internal-matter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2018\/10\/29\/china-avoids-commenting-on-lankan-crisis-saying-its-an-internal-matter\/","title":{"rendered":"China avoids commenting on Lankan crisis saying it\u2019s an internal matter"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy NewsIn.Asia<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Beijing, October 29 (newsin.asia): \u00a0China on Monday said the changes in Sri Lanka are its internal affairs\u00a0and it\u00a0believes\u00a0that the Sri Lankan government,\u00a0political parties and people have enough wisdom to deal with the internal situation.<\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>Asked about China\u2019s stand on the current political crisis in Sri Lanka considering that Beijing has made huge investments in that country, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Lu Kang \u00a0said:<\/p>\n<p>China and Sri Lanka are friendly neighbors. We are closely following the changes in the situation in Sri Lanka. The changes in Sri Lanka are internal affairs. We believe the Sri Lankan Government,\u00a0political parties and people have enough wisdom to deal with the internal situation,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"China avoids commenting on Lankan crisis saying it\u2019s an internal matter\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/newsin.asia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Lu-Kang-Chinese-Foreign-Ministry-spokesman-2.jpg?fit=701%2C396&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"China avoids commenting on Lankan crisis saying it\u2019s an internal matter\" \/><\/p>\n<p>China, he said will always follow the principle of non-interference in internal affairs of other countries.<\/p>\n<p>On the question about the Chinese Ambassador in Sri Lanka Cheng Xueyuan meeting both Rajapaksa\u00a0and Wickremesinghe, Lu said: We have maintained communication with relevant political parties in Sri Lanka.\u00a0Chinese Ambassador met Wickremesinghe\u00a0and the new Prime Minister and exchanged views on bilateral relations with the two.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The reference Rajapaksa as new Prime Minister\u201d by the spokesman was seen as significant by observers considering that Wickremesinghe\u00a0maintains that he is still the Prime Minister.<\/p>\n<p><em>(The featured image at the top shows Lu Kang, spokesman of the Chinese Foreign Ministry)\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Beijing, October 29 (newsin.asia): \u00a0China on Monday said the changes in Sri Lanka are its internal affairs\u00a0and it\u00a0believes\u00a0that the Sri Lankan government,\u00a0political parties and people have enough wisdom to deal with the internal situation. Asked about China\u2019s stand on the current political crisis in Sri Lanka considering that Beijing has made huge investments [&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-82534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82534","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=82534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82534\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}