Balancing between Free Market and Social Justice: Lessons from China
By a happy coincidence, Sri Lanka’s Vision 2025, coincides with China’s Vision 2025 that the current President, Xi Jinping, has unveiled.
( December 4, 2017, Sydney, Sri Lanka Guardian) Without superficially imitating other countries, drawing lessons from any country would be useful for a developing country like Sri Lanka given the common nature of many challenges that developing or transforming countries are faced with. It is not only because of the ancient historical links, dating back to Fa Hein’s visit to the island in the 5th century AD, that China is important to Sri Lanka, in this endeavour, but also because of the contemporary commonalities or more precisely, China’s unequivocal support to the country’s development.
