President Gotabaya Rajapaksa sent a letter to ‘close friend’, Chinese president Xi Jinping.
Ambassador of Sri Lanka to China, Dr. Palitha T.B. Kohona, gave the Director General of the Department of Protocol Hong Lei at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of China a special gift and personal message from Rajapaksa.
Recently, China and Sri Lanka have become more amicable after strengthening economic ties, allowing China to extend its influence on the island while Sri Lanka relies on monetary assistance.
Dr. Kohona expressed his enthusiasm about bilateral relations between the two countries. Hong acknowledged the close friendship between Rajapaksa and Xi Jinping, and reassured Kohona that China could be counted on as a friend to the island and stressed the role Chinese companies will play as the island continues to open up further to trade and investment.
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