{"id":50,"date":"2020-05-21T10:08:49","date_gmt":"2020-05-21T10:08:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chinanews.lk\/?p=50"},"modified":"2020-05-21T10:08:50","modified_gmt":"2020-05-21T10:08:50","slug":"china-says-sri-lanka-is-a-special-friend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinanews.lk\/index.php\/2020\/05\/21\/china-says-sri-lanka-is-a-special-friend\/","title":{"rendered":"China says Sri Lanka is a \u201cspecial friend\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\u201cSri Lanka is a special friend of China. We have long standing and cordial relations between the two countries. When we faced COVID- 19 disaster recently, Sri Lanka stood with us. China is willing to return that goodwill in the form of fullest cooperation to revive Sri Lanka\u2019s economy in the post-COVID \u2013 19 period\u201d, said the Acting Ambassador and Charg\u00e9 d\u2019affaires of the Chinese Embassy in Colombo Hu Wei, during his meeting with President Gotabaya Rajapaksa at the Presidential Secretariat here on Thursday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Quoting a Chinese saying Hu said: \u201cTrue friendship is to stick together in sorrow and happiness\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The acting envoy further said that his country and the people are grateful to Sri Lanka for being a friend in both good and bad times. Hu emphasized that China expects to assist Sri Lanka to overcome its future challenges also. Sri Lanka will receive help not only from the Central Government of China but also from the country\u2019s leading companies and banks to rebuild its economy in the post \u2013 COVID -19 period.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cSri Lanka is a special friend of China. We have long standing and cordial relations&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":51,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinanews.lk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinanews.lk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinanews.lk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinanews.lk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinanews.lk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chinanews.lk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinanews.lk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinanews.lk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinanews.lk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinanews.lk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}