Colombo: Amid economic turmoil, Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe urged China on Thursday to restructure its debt as Beijing is Colombo’s largest bilateral lender.
“We have informed the Chinese Government of the need to restructure the debt and the need for all the creditors to ‘sing from the same hymn sheet’,” Wickremesinghe told Nikkei Asia in an interview.
The appeal to China, Sri Lanka’s largest bilateral lender, has emerged as a formidable challenge to Wickremesinghe, who is leading the cou