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Title:
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China’s debt-trap diplomacy snares our Asian neighbours
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Author:
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Amanda Hodge
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Source:
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The Australian
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Date:
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January 13, 2018
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Description:
- It wasn’t long ago that local entrepreneurs in Sri Lanka’s remote Hambantota district were running “white elephant” tours of the sleepy town’s Chinese-funded, multi-billion-dollar attractions. They would start at the international airport dubbed the “emptiest airport in the world” and move on to the port with no ships, and finally the cricket stadium.
