HeinzG
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When did that happen ?? Which UNP govt sidelined the Chinese..Dont post crap just to score some browny points here.. I'm not a UNP supporter but your loyalties need to be for the country not for your political party .. So talk sense
There is no point hiding arguing on this fact. It is overwhelmingly clear to anyone who has studied modern SL history that UNP government has not made any sincere effort to develop relations with China or any socialist country. However it is a irony that Rubber-Rice pact with China was signed under UNP government. But another UNP government scrapped the pact in 1982 and the original UNP under Kotalawale chased away the master mind behind the RR pact Mr. R.G Senanayake in 1956.
A UNP govt had not been in power since 1994!!! That's two decades !! And in the midst of a civil war that finished just 6 years ago, The Chinese really opened up their markets and foreign direct investments from the 90's, So they really started looking for investments post civil war in the island.. Who in the right mind want to invest in a country plagued by terrorism and war ? Where did the UNP govts source weaponry and armaments during the 80's to fight the Tamil terrorists ? India? It was all from China and Pakistan.. Stop clutching at straws
Modern China began investing in Sri Lanka as way back in 2006. That was when SL was under civil war and on it's most brutal phase. So it's not a excuse to say that China didn't invest in SL because of the civil war. What really needed for such mutual understanding was the correct initiative, which UNP leadership lacked because of his vassalage to the West.
The weaponry for SL during SL civil war has acquired from various sources including China and Pakistan. Not all came from China or Pakistan. AFAIK we acuired Kfirs and Doras from Israel, initial batch of T 55 main battle tanks from Czech republic, Pucara fighter bombers from Argentina, SIAI-Marchetti SF 260s from Italy and so on.