Sri Lanka in talks with China over highway projects

[Azizam]

Well, I'm not really exaggerating bro. If you get what where I'm going. What I mean is that perception matters alot, sometimes even more than reality. If Sri Lanka is seen as a country who can't be trusted /flouts trade deals and contracts, which sane investor will come and risk his money on this country meanwhile there are several other SEEA contries yearning /opening up for investment?

So you see, it's not so much to do with Sri Lanka suspending only the port city and reviewing others, it's more about the perception /image that such a move has on foreign investors. So every country has to always avoid a negative perception especially when it comes to investment (since there is tough competition among countries to attract investment) , else they might nose many investment opportunities that will otherwise have gone to them.

Unfortunately true. Even worse is that the general public actually support stopping investment projects. For them everything is a waste of money, even building roads. Nowhere on earth I have seen the edicated class of a country showing so much resistance against investment projects. When edicated class behaves in this way, you know there's something wrong. That's why I don't like to live there.

 

[samv]

He is exaggerating things and you fall for it????

None of it is exaggeration. They are facts.

Unfortunately true. Even worse is that the general public actually support stopping investment projects. For them everything is a waste of money, even building roads. Nowhere on earth I have seen the edicated class of a country showing so much resistance against investment projects. When edicated class behaves in this way, you know there's something wrong. That's why I don't like to live there.

It's not the general public... it's the UNP. Stop trying to blame ordinary Sri Lankans.

 

[Azizam]

None of it is exaggeration. They are facts.




It's not the general public... it's the UNP. Stop trying to blame ordinary Sri Lankans.

BS. General public,especially the upper/middle class is always nagging about every investment project even the roads. Wherever there's construction they are whining about how poor people can't benefit from it. I don't know what they expect the government to do. Giving money for nothing to poor until the country go bankrupt?

If general public is not against such things then you should see protests to persuade government to restart the projects but what you see is people protespting to stop investments. Like I once said, in China people are protesting to get more investments while Sri Lankans are protesting to stop investments.

 

[samv]

BS. General public,especially the upper/middle class is always nagging about every investment project even the roads. Wherever there's construction they are whining about how poor people benefit from it.

Nope. The only people nagging are the UNP and the Colombo elite who are UNP supporters. That's why the UNP did **** all for Sri Lanka's development. Couldn't even build a highway.

If general public is not against such things then you should see protests to persuade government do restart the projects but what you see is people protesting to stop investments. Like I once said, in China people are protesting to get more investments while Sri Lankans are protesting to stop investments.

The only people protesting to stop investments are UNP supporters and UNP supported NGOs.

Stop blaming the SL people.

 

[mike2000 is back]

Well said.

On the same like what kind of dumb *** PM and ministers would bad mouth - in public - a country's largest investor? That's right, Sri Lanka's PM.

China, IMO should just pull out all its investment in the country until it can get guarantees from the new administration that they aren't just going to turn around and sabotage projects.

Well we can't blame the PM /new government that much, since they are just playing politics. you should know by now that politicians are all cunny people, so I understand the new government was trying to show its different from the old one and show(again perception not reality. Lol) it's more transparent than the old regime. It's a game we in the West all know for a long time now, though we have a system that prevents such things from happening here. However I think the Sri Lanka government went through it the wrong way, it could have use other more useful /same method to assert it's rule. But anyway that's politics for you

And no, china won't pull out of Sri Lanka, since the country is strategic to it as much of its oil/trade lanes passes through there , but to we in the West, not so much. To us Sri Lanka is just another small relatively poor south Asian country to be honest.

 

[samv]

To us Sri Lanka is just another small relatively poor south Asian country to be honest.

And it's going to stay that way now.

 

[mike2000 is back]

And it's going to stay that way now.

Huh. ...not really my man, no situation is permanent.

 

[Shan-e-ibrahim]

Hahahaaha, this governmnt is also on its way to double cross Modia Bin

 

[Azizam]

රනිල් දිනන්නේ නැත්තේ මොකද? මහින්ද එන්නේ නැත්තම් අනිවාර්යයෙන් රනිල් එනවා....මෛත්‍රී මොකද රනිල් එනවට අකමැති? මෛත්‍රී තමයි රනිල් ගේ ලොකුම සපෝටර්.....කවුරු දින්නත් ජාතික ආන්ඩුවක් හදලා රනිල් අගමැති කරනවා කියන්නේ මෛත්‍රී නේ.

මම මහින්ද ට බැන්නා තමයි, එයාගේ වැරදි වලට...නැතුව මහින්ද අයින් කරලා රනිල්ට රට කන්න නෙමෙයි...

මහින්ද මේ රටේ ලෙඩ අැති කළා....හැබැයි රනිල් ඒකට දෙන්න යන බේත රටට විසයි.....ඒකයි....හැමෝගෙම වැරදි තියනවා ඒ වැරදි හැම එකක්ම සමාන නැ....importance level, priority level, risk level වගේ ඒවලින් වෙනස් වෙනවා....එතෙන්දි මහින්දගේ වැරදි වල importance level, priority level, risk level අඩුයි, රනිල් ගේ වැඩියි....රනිල් ආවොත් ලංකාවක් පවතින්නේ නැ..ඒකයි

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Nope. The only people nagging are the UNP and the Colombo elite who are UNP supporters. That's why the UNP did **** all for Sri Lanka's development. Couldn't even build a highway.




The only people protesting to stop investments are UNP supporters and UNP supported NGOs.

Stop blaming the SL people.

Not according to my personal experience. Average person looks at investments with suspicion and so many people have this idea that "without natural resources, a country can't develop".

 

[samv]

Not according to my personal experience. Average person looks at investments with suspicion and so many people have this idea that "without natural resources, a country can't develop".

That's because they are fed the UNP's and to a lesser extent the JVP's lies.

 

[Azizam]

That's because they are fed the UNP's and to a lesser extent the JVP's lies.

Still they are the educated elites in the country and they are acting like zombies. In any developing country, everything depends on this small group of elites whether they use their power and influence for the interests of country or remain to be selfish and ignorant.

 

[samv]

Still they are the educated elites in the country and they are acting like zombies. In any developing country, everything depends on this small group of elites whether they use their power and influence for the interests of country or remain to be selfish and ignorant.

Why are you complaining? You supported the Colombo elites to oust Mahinda and bring the "utopia" of Sirisena and Ranil. Sri Lanka is now a basket case.

 

[Azizam]

Why are you complaining? You supported the Colombo elites to oust Mahinda and bring the "utopia" of Sirisena and Ranil. Sri Lanka is now a basket case.

I may have supported MS for a week or two but after they started messing with investment projects, I stopped it. And if you read past posts on this forum, you will notice that I have been supporting MR while @Saradiel was saying how Sri Lankan economy being dragged into oblivion.


@samv BTW many of these expressways were initially planned by Ranil.

 

[samv]

I may have supported MS for a week or two but after they started messing with investment projects, I stopped it. And if you read past posts on this forum, you will notice that I have been supporting MR while @Saradiel was saying how Sri Lankan economy being dragged into oblivion.

Anyone with half a brain could see what was going to happen. Clearly you didn't.

And now even Saradiel is saying MR was not so bad after all after screaming and shouting like a banshee on crack.

Goes to show many Sri Lankans are dumb as chalk.

BTW many of these expressways were initially planned by Ranil.

LMAO, sure they were.

You do realise there is a big difference between having a brain fart, and actually IMPLEMENTING a project?

Sri Lanka can look forward to being a diseased, backward and primitive country in the region. You wanted stagnation and that is what you got. Don't complain. But hey, Sri Lanka is not "isolated internationally" now right? Wohoo!!!

 

[Azizam]

Anyone with half a brain could see what was going to happen. Clearly you didn't.

And now even Saradiel is saying MR was not so bad after all after screaming and shouting like a banshee on crack.

Goes to show many Sri Lankans are dumb as chalk.





LMAO, sure they were.

You do realise there is a big difference between having a brain fart, and actually IMPLEMENTING a project?

Sri Lanka can look forward to being a diseased, backward and primitive country in the region. You wanted stagnation and that is what you got. Don't complain. But hey, Sri Lanka is not "isolated internationally" now right? Wohoo!!!

I admit. I was wrong to support the new government and you are right for the most part.

Look at these clowns pretending to be cutting the cost of highway by reducing corruption but what they are actually doing is removing the potential to add 2 more lanes in the future.

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