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China replies in kind to US allegations of Beijing exacerbating debt crisis here Source:Island Chinese financial institutions have reached out to Sri Lanka and had shown full readiness to find a way to handle the matured Chinese loans and help Sri Lanka to overcome the difficulties, Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Zhao Lijian said during his Regular Press Conference in Beijing. Lijian made this statement in response to a question by a Global Times journalist about a recent statement by the Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development, Samantha Power, who said that China has provided Sri Lanka with “opaque loan deals at higher interest rates than other lenders” and financed infrastructure projects that often served little practical use, over the past 20 years. ...