“ Sri Lanka —like so many other countries struggling for solvency —remains a colony with administration outsourced to the International Monetary Fund. We still export cheap labor and resources, and import expensive finished goods —the basic colonial model. The country is still divided and conquered by local elites, while real economic control is held abroad. The I.M.F. has extended loans to Sri Lanka 16 times, always with stringent conditions. They just keep restructuring us for further exploitation by creditors.” Sri Lanka Collapsed First, but It Won’ Be the Last By Indrajit Samarajiva The New York Times, NYTimes.com 15 August 2022 As a Sri Lankan, watching international news coverage of my country’ economic and political implosion is like showing up at your own funeral, with everybody speculating on how you died. The Western media accuse China of luring us into a debt trap. Tucker Carlson says environmental, social and corporate governance programs killed us. Everybody blames the
“The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.” —Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilisation and the Remaking of the World Order, 1996, p. 51