DUDE

100%

their government for some reason went completely retarded

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019–present_Sri_Lankan_economic_crisis

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Your article proves that this "protest" is actually something else since they were able to import the food they needed and these people are still showing up a year later.
>U.S. assistance to Sri Lanka has totaled more than $2 billion since Sri Lanka’s independence in 1948. The United States has made substantial investments in agriculture, enterprise development, education, healthcare, energy and natural resources, and humanitarian activities. Following the April 2019 Easter attacks, the United States sent FBI experts to support the investigation.
>The United States is Sri Lanka’s largest export market and accounts for nearly $3 billion of the $11.7 billion of goods Sri Lanka exports annually. U.S. goods imports from Sri Lanka totaled $2.7 billion in 2018, down 6.4 percent from 2017. U.S. exports to Sri Lanka in 2018 were valued at $372 million, up 10.7 percent from the previous year. The total U.S. trade deficit in goods with Sri Lanka was $2.3 billion in 2018, an 8.6 percent decrease from 2017. U.S. imports from Sri Lanka are mostly apparel, but also include rubber, industrial supplies, gemstones, tea, and spices. Top U.S. exports to Sri Lanka include animal feeds, medical equipment, soybeans, plastics, dairy products, wheat, cloth, and textiles.
>Sri Lanka has also received approximately $1.2 billion in lending from the IMF since June 2016 with a new disbursement of $164.1 million agreed upon in May 2019.
We lent assistance to Sri Lanka whenever they needed it. Those people in the OP aren't there because they're starving.

Damn. They really need to really open up tourism so the strong foreign currency can help them out. Too late for this year's crops but dropping next year's organic demands should be beneficial.

>muh Rules Based International Order
Fuck right off, you enormous faggots.

Is China or the US behind this? Feels like a mutt operation but apparently the US was already very friendly with the government there.

Why do we give these shitholes money when they just turn to China in everything else, except when they become refugees they of course want to come to the west

They have the food, but it must be astronomically expensive. Fuel prices, too. They also have an assload of debt they can't repay.

Nederlander bros...

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Sri Lanka unfortunately occupies a very strategic location so we can't just ignore it. Whoever controls Sri Lanka exerts a huge amount of influence over trade in the Indian ocean.
100% China. They're the only one who have to gain from overthrowing a government that cooperates with the US military.
>Bilateral military cooperation continues to promote a safer and more prosperous Indo-Pacific region, particularly through maritime cooperation. Key activities include U.S. Navy port calls, a partnership with the Sri Lanka Navy to establish a Sri Lankan Marine Corps, support to stand up a National Defense College for senior military officials, and exercises with the Sri Lanka Navy and Air Force to build cooperation on humanitarian assistance and disaster relief and maritime security issues toward a safe and prosperous Indo-Pacific. In addition, the U.S. Navy has donated former U.S. Coast Guard high endurance cutters through the Excess Defense Articles Program, which have bolstered Sri Lanka’s ability to patrol its territorial waters, interdict illegal goods, and provide search and rescue support to civilian vessels.

it's not only expensive food, they are also going through a hyperinflation (54.6% in june)

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