Infrastructure: Sri Lanka's debt to China

The prospect of large investment in a country desperate to catch up with its neighbours is doing little to ease anti-Chinese sentiment.

"We have a saying here in Sri Lanka,” comments an engineer working on Sri Lanka’s first expressway. “Japanese prices high, quality good; Chinese prices high, quality bad.”

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