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Chinese Netizens Aren’t Keen to Bail Out Sri Lanka

HEADLINE TRANSLATION: "China doesn't owe Sri Lanka anything, let's figure out who Sri Lanka owes a huge debt"

While international calls grow louder for China to restructure Sri Lanka’s debt obligations, a very different conversation is going on in Chinese media and online communities. 

Antara Ghosal Singh, an expert on Chinese domestic development and a fellow at the New Delhi-based Observer Research Foundation (ORF), has been tracking the increasingly negative public sentiment over the situation in Sri Lanka and what Beijing’s response should be:

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