Sri Lanka

This year’s protests have revitalized the country’s socialists. But can they capitalize on that momentum electorally?

The international community has a part to play in ending its culture of impunity.

“We managed to survive the pandemic, but this is worse.”

The food crisis is hitting the country’s most vulnerable the hardest.

Beijing’s investments in the island look shaky after protests topple the government.

The proximate cause for the protests is inflation, but the roots are in Sinhalese Buddhist nationalism.

To solve a global economic unwinding, the world must learn to focus on more than one crisis at a time.

Despite two months of anti-government protests, Gotabaya Rajapaksa doesn’t seem like a leader preparing to relinquish power.

Crony capitalism, protectionism, and corruption have caused havoc—uniting various ethnic groups, including Sinhalese Buddhists, in protest against the regime.

Demonstrators have already made an impact but lack a unified agenda—and face a state notorious for crushing dissent.

As the brothers helming the government struggle with a spiraling economic crisis, they still have legislators and generals behind them—for now.

Beijing’s strategic initiatives on the subcontinent are sputtering.

A nationwide experiment is abandoned after producing only misery.

The Chinese foreign minister’s island hopping is the latest sign of contestation over the Indo-Pacific.

Ignoring economists and committing human rights violations come at a high cost for the country’s economy.