蜜芽传媒

Sri Lanka is in free fall. The Indian Ocean nation defaulted on its international debts in May and is now running out of fuel and food. The country's prime minister has declared that 鈥渞ock bottom鈥� is fast approaching. But how did it come to this? And could Sri Lanka's route out of its gravest economic crisis since independence be blocked by China and an international tussle over debt repayments? 蜜芽传媒 Newsnight's Ben Chu uncovered a story of a country crushed by domestic mistakes as well as unforgiving global economic forces, with worrying implications for many other developing nations.