{"id":61356,"date":"2018-10-29T22:38:33","date_gmt":"2018-10-30T02:38:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=61356"},"modified":"2018-10-29T22:38:33","modified_gmt":"2018-10-30T02:38:33","slug":"china-is-closely-following-what-is-happening-in-sri-lanka-but-does-not-intend-interfering-in-the-affairs-of-a-friendly-nation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=61356","title":{"rendered":"China is Closely Following What is Happening in Sri Lanka but does not Intend Interfering in the Affairs of a Friendly Nation."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By<\/p>\n<p>Atul Aneja <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>China on Monday said it did not intend to interfere in Sri Lanka\u2019s internal affairs, but was \u201cclosely following\u201d the situation in the island nation, and had contacted the leaders involved in the crisis.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cChina and Sri Lanka are close and friendly neighbors. We are closely following in the changes in the situation in Sri Lanka,\u201d foreign ministry spokesperson Lu Kang said.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe always follow the principles of non-interference in other countries\u2019 affairs. The changes in Sri Lanka\u2019s situation are its internal affairs,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>However, Mr. Lu acknowledged that the Chinese envoy in Colombo had met Mahinda Rajapaksa, who has been appointed Prime Minister by President Maithripala Sirisena.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have maintained communication with relevant political parties in Sri Lanka. The Chinese ambassador\u2026met [Mr.] Wikremesinghe [sic] and the new Prime Minister Rajapaksa\u2026\u201d Mr. Lu observed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe believe that Sri Lanka\u2019s government, political parties and people have enough wisdom to properly deal with the internal situation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Courtesy:The Hindu<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"tweetbutton61356\" class=\"tw_button\" style=\"float:right;margin-left:10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdbsjeyaraj.com%2Fdbsj%2F%3Fp%3D61356&amp;text=China%20is%20Closely%20Following%20What%20is%20Happening%20in%20Sri%20Lanka%20but%20does%20not%20Intend%20Interfering%20in%20the%20Affairs%20of%20a...%20&amp;related=&amp;lang=en&amp;count=horizontal\" class=\"twitter-share-button\"  style=\"width:55px;height:22px;background:transparent url('https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-tweet-button\/tweetn.png') no-repeat  0 0;text-align:left;text-indent:-9999px;display:block;\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Atul Aneja China on Monday said it did not intend to interfere in Sri Lanka\u2019s internal affairs, but was \u201cclosely following\u201d the situation in the island nation, and had contacted the leaders involved in the crisis. \u201cChina and Sri Lanka are close and friendly neighbors. We are closely following in the changes in the &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=61356\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;China is Closely Following What is Happening in Sri Lanka but does not Intend Interfering in the Affairs of a Friendly Nation.&rsquo; &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61356"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61356"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61357,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61356\/revisions\/61357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}