ISTANBUL  China’s President Xi Jinping on Monday pledged to facilitate more cooperation under the Belt and Road Initiative with Sri Lanka under the leadership of newly-elected President Anura Kumara Dissanayake.  In a message to Dissanayake after his swearing-in ceremony, Xi expressed Beijing’s readiness to “make steady and long-term progress” in the China-Sri Lanka strategic cooperative partnership for mutual assistance and to “better benefit” the two peoples. The Marxist-leaning Sinhalese

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