{"id":22876,"date":"2018-11-23T01:22:40","date_gmt":"2018-11-23T01:22:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=22876"},"modified":"2018-11-23T01:22:40","modified_gmt":"2018-11-23T01:22:40","slug":"political-crisis-tumbling-rupee-add-to-sri-lankas-economic-woes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=22876","title":{"rendered":"Political crisis, tumbling rupee add to Sri Lanka&#8217;s economic woes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"body-170301071804049\" readability=\"71\">\n<p>China and India are both keeping a close eye on the political situation in Sri Lanka. The island nation plunged into a constitutional crisis with two men claiming to be the lawful prime minister.<\/p>\n<p>Sri Lanka owes more than $50bn to foreign lenders, which is 77 percent of its gross domestic product (GDP). Next year, it has to pay back more than $4bn of its foreign loans, which just got harder as the political crisis has sent the rupee to its lowest ever level against the US dollar.<\/p>\n<p>China sees Sri Lanka as crucial in its plans to expand trade routes, while India is nervous about growing Chinese influence in its neighbourhood.<\/p>\n<p> Al Jazeera&#8217;s Bernard Smith reports from Colombo.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China and India are both keeping a close eye on the political situation in Sri Lanka. The island nation plunged into a constitutional crisis with two men claiming to be the lawful prime minister. Sri Lanka owes more than $50bn to foreign lenders, which is 77 percent of its gross domestic product (GDP). Next year,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":22877,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22876\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/22877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}