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Editor’s Editor: The following article is based on the speech delivered by the author as the Chairperson of the Ceylon Chamber of Commerce at the Sri Lanka Economic and Investment Summit 2025.
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China and Japan issued starkly different accounts of a tense maritime encounter near the disputed Senkaku Islands on Tuesday, underscoring the depth of longstanding hostilities between the two nations. According to a
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