Sri Lanka’s Principled Neutrality Ensured Its Survival In The Economic Crisis Thus Far

Sri Lanka’s Principled Neutrality Ensured Its Survival In The Economic Crisis Thus Far

There’s a lesson to be learned from Sri Lanka’s experience, which is that the pursuit of strategic autonomy and the enhanced sovereignty that it leads to enables countries to keep the largest number of options open during times of crisis.

The Indian Ocean island nation of Sri Lanka is being crushed by the worst economic crisis in it history, but it’s managed to survive this far due to its principled neutrality towards Russia’s ongoing special military operation in Ukraine. Instead of jumping on the US-led Western bandwagon by voting