Podcast
Understanding Sri Lanka’s current crisis
What needs to be done to address the Sri Lankan crisis and how does it relate to China?
This episode is part of the ZhōngHuá Mundus series of The Sound of Economics.
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Sri Lanka is experiencing political and economic instability unseen since the civil war. Growing anti-government sentiment, the power struggle between Parliament and President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, mixed with the economic situation has reached a boiling point and riots and protests hvae broken out in the streets. In this episode of The Sound of Economics, Giuseppe Porcaro is joined by Bruegel Senior fellow Alicia García-Herrero, and Asanga Abeyagoonasekera, international security and geopolitics analyst and strategic advisor from Sri Lanka, to discuss the crisis in Sri Lanka, its relation to China’s BRI, and to understand its consequences for Europe, China, as well as the world.
