Akatswiri akutero kuti zomangamanga zomwe zikukulitsa kukula kwa chuma zikuwononga ngongole zomwe zikuwononga mzinda wa Beijing.
Mapulojekiti omwe akuchitika motsatira dongosolo la Belt and Road Initiative lomwe likuperekedwa ndi China athandiza kwambiri chitukuko cha zachuma ku Sri Lanka, ndipo kupambana kwawo kwapangitsa kuti mabodza oti thandizoli likuika mayiko m'mavuto a ngongole zambiri, akatswiri atero.
Mosiyana ndi nkhani yomwe otsutsa a Beijing akunena za vuto la ngongole, thandizo la China lakhala chothandizira kukula kwachuma kwa nthawi yayitali kwa mayiko omwe akuchita nawo BRI, akatswiriwa adatero. Ku Sri Lanka, mapulojekiti a Colombo Port City ndi Hambantota Port, komanso kumanga Southern Expressway, ndi ena mwa ntchito zazikulu zokhudzana ndi pulogalamu yolimbikitsa zomangamanga.
Doko la Colombo lili pa nambala 22 pa mndandanda wa madoko padziko lonse chaka chino. Linalemba kukula kwa 6 peresenti kwa kuchuluka kwa katundu wonyamulidwa, kufika pa 7.25 miliyoni mamita makumi awiri ofanana mu 2021, atolankhani adatchula bungwe la Sri Lanka Ports Authority Lolemba.
Mkulu wa bungwe loona za madoko, Prasantha Jayamanna, adauza Daily FT, nyuzipepala ya ku Sri Lanka, kuti kuchuluka kwa ntchito zomwe zikuchitika kunali kolimbikitsa, ndipo Purezidenti Gotabaya Rajapaksa wanena kuti akufuna kuti dokoli lilowe m'gulu la 15 apamwamba padziko lonse lapansi pofika chaka cha 2025.
Mzinda wa Colombo Port City ukuyembekezeka kukhala malo abwino kwambiri okhala, ogulitsa ndi mabizinesi ku South Asia, ndipo kampani ya China Harbor Engineering Company ikugwira ntchito, kuphatikizapo chilumba chopangidwa ndi anthu.
"Dziko lobwezeretsedwa ili lapatsa Sri Lanka mwayi wojambulanso mapu ndikumanga mzinda wokhala ndi magwiridwe antchito apamwamba padziko lonse lapansi ndikupikisana ndi Dubai kapena Singapore," Saliya Wickramasuriya, membala wa Colombo Port City Economic Commission, adauza atolankhani.
Ubwino waukulu
Ponena za doko la Hambantota, kuyandikira kwake ndi misewu ikuluikulu ya panyanja kumatanthauza kuti ndi phindu lalikulu pa ntchitoyi.
Nduna yayikulu ya Sri Lanka, Mahinda Rajapaksa, yayamikira China "chifukwa cha thandizo lake la nthawi yayitali komanso lalikulu pa chitukuko cha zachuma ndi chikhalidwe cha anthu mdzikolo".
Pamene dzikolo likufuna kuchira ku zotsatira za mliriwu, otsutsa China atinso Sri Lanka ikulandira ngongole zokwera mtengo, ndipo ena akuti mapulojekiti othandizidwa ndi China ndi njovu zoyera.
Sirimal Abeyratne, pulofesa wa zachuma ku University of Colombo, adauza China Daily kuti Sri Lanka idatsegula msika wake wa ma bond kwa ndalama zakunja mu 2007, ndipo nthawi yomweyo idayamba kubwereka ndalama zamalonda, "zomwe sizikugwirizana ndi ngongole zaku China".
China inali ndi ngongole yakunja ya $35 biliyoni ya dziko la pachilumbachi mu Epulo 2021, malinga ndi deta yochokera ku Dipatimenti Yoona za Zachuma Zakunja ku Sri Lanka, ndipo Japan inalinso ndi ngongole yapakati pa 10 peresenti. China ndi kampani yachinayi yobwereketsa ndalama ku Sri Lanka, kumbuyo kwa misika yazachuma yapadziko lonse, Asian Development Bank ndi Japan.
Mfundo yakuti China yatchulidwa m'nkhani ya otsutsa za ngongole ikusonyeza momwe akuyesera kunyoza mapulojekiti a China ndi BRI m'chigawo cha Asia-Pacific, anatero Wang Peng, wofufuza ku Center for American Studies ku Zhejiang International Studies University.
Malinga ndi World Bank ndi International Monetary Fund, dziko limapitirira malire a zoopsa ngati ngongole zake zakunja zikuposa 40 peresenti ya chuma chonse cha dziko.
"Kuthekera kwa Sri Lanka kukhala malo oyendetsera zinthu m'chigawo komanso malo otumiziramo katundu kuti apindule ndi BRI kunawonetsedwa kwambiri," Samitha Hettige, mlangizi wa National Education Commission of Sri Lanka, analemba mu ndemanga mu Ceylon Today.
Nthawi yotumizira: Mar-18-2022
