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Sri Lanka Has a Deep Water Port Delivered at the End of the 2000s: What Brought It Under Foreign Flag Is neither War nor a Buy-Back

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The port of Hambantota in Sri Lanka, inaugurated in 2010 with fiery promises, has become a symbol of the traps of international debt. Neither war nor hostile redemption: it is the country's inability to repay its colossal debt that caused the sale of its exploitation to China for 99 years in 2017. More
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Sri Lanka Has a Deep Water Port Delivered at the End of the 2000s: What Brought It Under Foreign Flag Is neither War nor a Buy-Back

The port of Hambantota in Sri Lanka, inaugurated in 2010 with fiery promises, has become a symbol of the traps of international debt. Neither war nor hostile redemption: it is the country's inability to repay its colossal debt that caused the sale of its exploitation to China for 99 years in 2017. More

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SciencePost broke the news on Saturday, August 29, 2026.
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