IMF Visit Adds Pressure on China to Support Sri Lanka Debt Restructuring

OLIVIER DOULIERY / AFP

A team from the International Monetary Fund is in Sri Lanka for the second time in three months to discuss debt restructuring amid calls for China to align itself with the country’s other creditors.

Sri Lanka’s new President Ranil Wickremesinghe said: “We have informed the Chinese government [of] the need to restructure [the debt] and the need for all the creditors to sing from the same hymn sheet.”

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