March 16, 20262h 37min

The IMF Trap, China's Debt & Why Sri Lanka Could Be Heading for Another Crisis

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Kusum Wijetilleke — former corporate banker, political commentator, and advisor to SJB Opposition Leader Sajith Premadasa — joins us for a no-holds-barred conversation on Sri Lanka's political economy.

From India's secret invasion plans and China's "String of Pearls" strategy, to the IMF program's hidden trap, why our tax system protects the rich, and what it would actually take to grow the economy: Kusum doesn't hold back.

We also get into the psychology of Sri Lanka's political failures, the

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