India urges IMF to urgently provide financial aid to Sri Lanka

[LakeHawk180]

I do wonder why you ask this question anonymously? I am assuming you’re Indian yourself, and wonder if you have asked your own countrymen why they find other Indians inferior, since you still have a very unhealthy caste system going on there….?!

Aren’t most people in here, including yourself anonymous? I am equally critical of racism within India (including casteism) as I am of transnational racism.

To try not to derail the topic further, this is a good opportunity for us to bring Sri Lanka back to the fold. We like Sri Lanka. It’s a country with a lot of potential - ranging from tourism to renewable energy.

People underestimate the value of cultural synergies and regional proximity. Unless there are major unresolved grievances — It’s like a rubber band - forcing countries to come together no matter how much effort outside forces expend - attempting to scuttle such a prospect.

Chinese at the end of day, will never be able to relate with Sri Lankans at a personal level. And with the reputation they have (China as a country) for being somewhat opportunist and exploitative, it becomes even more difficult.

People to people contact between India and Sri Lanka is immense. Even international agencies (UN, World Bank etc) while maintaining offices in Sri Lanka, coordinate/drive a lot of activities there through their regional headquarters in India.

Similarly - in the case of Pakistan, no matter how much they try — an ordinary Pakistani can never relate with China beyond appreciating state level cooperation. Few might even go there for education — but they will never understand them beyond a point.

 

[ziaulislam]

But they squeeze our neck for loans

Imf is fund
They arent a charity
Please understand what it means

Job of IMF is squeeze you to balance your books while in the interim it provides some money and yes it woild want that monwy back too

its not IMF mandidate to care what the inflation or poverty would like after it helped you balance your books

Because any inflation is better then default which virtually means you NO
LONGER BACK YOUR OWN CURRENCY

Pakistanis would like to sell the chepaest oil in the region on back of IMF funds?
Or run an import base economy
Or sign expensive deals of power sector or run orange line on subsidy
Its not a charity

Pakistan biggest problem is too little exports and too many thermal plants
Because it didnt build dams rather it built orange metros(BRT would have been 8x cheaper) and thus expensive import base economy

It didnt tax it people to fund/subsidze exportz