Understanding Sri Lanka's current crisis

Sri Lanka is experiencing an episode of political and economic
instability the country has not seen since the civil war. The
growing anti-government sentiment, the power struggle between the
Parliament and the President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, mixed with the
economic situation has reached a boiling point, and an outbreak
of riots and protests in the streets. In this episode of The
Sound of Economics, Giuseppe Porcaro is joined by Bruegel
Senior fellow Alicia García-Herrero, and Asanga Abeyagoonasekera,
international security and geopolitics analyst and strategic
advisor from Sri Lanka, to discuss the crisis in Sri Lanka, its
relation to China's BRI, and to understand its consequences for
Europe, China, as well as the world.

This episode is part of the ZhōngHuá Mundus series of The Sound
of Economics.

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