{"id":459364,"date":"2021-12-30T10:56:42","date_gmt":"2021-12-30T05:26:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=459364"},"modified":"2021-12-30T11:59:53","modified_gmt":"2021-12-30T06:29:53","slug":"lanka-readies-oil-tank-farm-deal-with-india-wang-to-visit-colombo-after-spat-may-offer-sweeteners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/lanka-readies-oil-tank-farm-deal-with-india-wang-to-visit-colombo-after-spat-may-offer-sweeteners\/","title":{"rendered":"Lanka readies oil tank farm deal with India; Wang to visit Colombo after spat, may offer sweeteners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>China\u2019s Foreign Minister Wang Yi will visit Sri Lanka next week in the midst of a crippling economic crisis that has seen Colombo turn to Delhi for help and fast pedal the long-delayed India-Sri Lanka plan for joint development of the Trincomalee oil tank farm.<\/p>\n<p>Wang Yi\u2019s two-day visit, expected between January 7 and 9, will take place against the backdrop of a spat between the two countries over a contaminated consignment of organic fertiliser that has resulted in unexpected tensions between both countries.<\/p>\n<p>After Colombo cancelled an order for the import of 99,000 tons of the fertiliser, Beijing blacklisted the Sri Lankan state-run People\u2019s Bank and accused it of a \u201cvicious\u201d default on the letter of credit payment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China\u2019s Foreign Minister Wang Yi will visit Sri Lanka next week in the midst of a crippling economic crisis that has seen Colombo turn to Delhi for help and fast pedal the long-delayed India-Sri Lanka plan for joint development of the Trincomalee oil tank farm. Wang Yi\u2019s two-day visit, expected between January 7 and 9, will take place against the backdrop of a spat between the two countries over a contaminated consignment of organic fertiliser that has resulted in unexpected tensions between both countries. After Colombo cancelled an order for the import of 99,000 tons of the fertiliser, Beijing blacklisted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-459364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=459364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459364\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=459364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=459364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=459364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}