Politics

China’s Grip on Sri Lanka’s Ports

The story few are following, but everyone needs to know.

Kristi Dawn Riggs
Global Perspectives
9 min readSep 1, 2021

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Sri Lanka’s history goes back 3,000 years, with evidence of prehistoric human settlements dating over 125,000 years ago.

Many people don’t know anything about Sri Lanka and its ports, much less the history of Hambantota, and even less about the “Colombo City Port Project.” Maybe now is the time to pay attention because it’s going to have implications.

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Kristi Dawn Riggs
Global Perspectives

Advisor, University Faculty Adjunct, M.A. Georgetown University.