{"id":88836,"date":"2019-05-15T14:31:18","date_gmt":"2019-05-15T21:31:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=88836"},"modified":"2019-05-15T14:46:56","modified_gmt":"2019-05-15T21:46:56","slug":"sri-lanka-to-receive-chinese-military-aid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2019\/05\/15\/sri-lanka-to-receive-chinese-military-aid\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka to receive Chinese military aid"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><b>Jon Grevatt, Bangkok<\/b>\u00a0&#8211; Jane&#8217;s Defence Weekly<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p><br>China has agreed to provide aid worth USD14 million to Sri Lanka to procure Chinese-made counter-insurgency equipment, it was announced on 14 May.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The funding \u2013 pledged during Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena\u2019s visit to Beijing \u2013 is intended to boost the capability of Sri Lanka\u2019s security forces, the president\u2019s media division said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>China has also agreed to provide Sri Lanka\u2019s police force with 150 vehicles, it added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The donations were pledged less than a month after Sri Lanka endured a series of suicide bombings, which killed more than 250 people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The funding pledge is the latest that China has offered Sri Lanka to support defence equipment purchases<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jon Grevatt, Bangkok\u00a0&#8211; Jane&#8217;s Defence Weekly China has agreed to provide aid worth USD14 million to Sri Lanka to procure Chinese-made counter-insurgency equipment, it was announced on 14 May. The funding \u2013 pledged during Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena\u2019s visit to Beijing \u2013 is intended to boost the capability of Sri Lanka\u2019s security forces, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88836","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=88836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88836\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}