As Crisis-Hit Sri Lanka Counts Cost of Chinese Projects, India Tries to Recover Influence

For a decade and a half, China’s clout in Sri Lanka grew as it built a series of infrastructure projects as part of its Belt and Road initiative. But as an economic crisis grips Sri Lanka, India, which was sidelined by China, is trying to regain the influence it lost from the country that lies on its southern tip. Anjana Pasricha reports from New Delhi