Why Sri Lanka would need to look East and West
April 16, 2014, 7:07 pm 
Sri Lanka signed a number of agreements with China to further support existing projects and to initiate new ones on May 31, 2013 in Beijing.
Countries such as Sri Lanka would do well to bear these considerations in mind as they forge ahead with their foreign policy calculations. To be sure, the US is the world’s number one hegemonic power and would be increasingly intolerant of those states, big or small, which are seen as getting in the way of its plans and designs for the world, but Sri Lanka, for instance, would be working against some its vital interests by failing to relate to the US in cordial terms and on a pragmatic basis. The quantum of our garment exports to the US alone would prove the point. 