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Port City meant to ‘Slay Two Birds with One Stone’-by Trevor Jayetileke The Colombo Port City Bill was passed in The Sri Lanka Parliament on the 20th of May 2021  with all the amendments as required by the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka and therefore the first hurdle has been cleared for it to go ahead. The Colombo Port City (CPC) is the second Gambit of China’s BRI (Belt and Road Initiative) to expand its Economic Horizons into Asia, Middle East, Africa and East-Europe., and so far so good. The BRI is the Brain Child of China’s President Xi Jinping a rising Star of exceptional calibre, not seen before in  the Asia Pacific Region.  The BRI Concept of President Xi was initially spoken by him in the Caspian region in 2013 and subsequently in Indonesia and then in early 2014 when our Foreign Minister  went to China to obtain its ...