{"id":45078,"date":"2012-06-12T08:56:59","date_gmt":"2012-06-12T08:56:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=45078"},"modified":"2012-06-12T08:56:59","modified_gmt":"2012-06-12T08:56:59","slug":"china-hosts-sri-lankas-opposition-leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/china-hosts-sri-lankas-opposition-leader\/","title":{"rendered":"China Hosts Sri Lanka&#8217;s Opposition Leader"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By PTI &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>The ruling Communist Party of China (CPC) today vowed to enhance party-to-party exchanges with Sri Lanka to promote common development as it hosted the country opposition leader Ranil Wickramasinghe.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_45079\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/china-hosts-sri-lankas-opposition-leader\/ranil-wickramasinghe-1-colombo-telegraph-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-45079\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-45079\" class=\"size-full wp-image-45079\" title=\"Ranil Wickramasinghe 1 - colombo telegraph\" src=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Ranil-Wickramasinghe-1-colombo-telegraph.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"429\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Ranil-Wickramasinghe-1-colombo-telegraph.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Ranil-Wickramasinghe-1-colombo-telegraph-209x300.jpg 209w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-45079\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ranil Wickramasinghe<\/p><\/div>\n<p>United National Party (UNP) leader Wickramasinghe met senior leader of the CPC, Zhou Yongkang who is part of the nine member Standing Committee that virtually rules China.<\/p>\n<p>CPC vowed to enhance party-to-party exchanges with Sri Lanka so as to promote common development, Zhou told Wickremesinghe during their meeting.<\/p>\n<p>Zhou hailed the current China-Sri Lanka ties, saying it has become an example of friendly cooperation between countries with different social systems.<\/p>\n<p>He spoke highly of Sri Lanka&#8217;s political, economic and social development since the end of domestic armed conflicts three years ago, noting that China will boost exchanges with Sri Lanka&#8217;s parties, including the UNP, state-run Xinhua newsagency reported.<\/p>\n<p>Though China regularly hosts Sri Lankan government officials, CPC this time invited Wickramasinghe to firm up ties with UNP.<\/p>\n<p>Wickremesinghe, former prime minister of Sri Lanka, voiced appreciation for the CPC&#8217;s achievements in leading the country&#8217;s development, vowed to learn from China&#8217;s experiences and thanked China for its constant support, the Xinhua report said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":45079,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2201],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombotelegraph","category-from-foreign-media"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - 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