In April 2022, Sri Lanka defaulted on its debt, sparking protests that forced out President Gotabaya Rajapaksa. Voters have since endured years of hardship. Graphic: Tree map showing Sri Lanka’s ...

The project is billed as providing critical infrastructure for the South Asian ... the loan, Sri Lanka will be the “2nd biggest exposure” for his institution in the Indo-Pacific region ...

Marxist-leaning Dissanayake, popularly known as AKD, will be vying to become the South Asian ... Graphic: Tree map showing Sri Lanka’s external debt by creditor. The creditors have been grouped ...

The main factors for analysis are the interplay between Sri Lanka’s geopolitical significance in the US Indo-Pacific Strategy ... s foreign policy swing towards forces in the Global South. Sri Lanka’s ...

Map of the Sri Lankan Exclusive ... and adding to the country’s existing struggles. Sri Lanka is strategically located in the Indian Ocean, just a few kilometers south of India.