In a commentary, James M. Dorsey, a Senior Fellow at RSIS discussed the discrepancy in China’s approach towards Sri Lanka as opposed to Africa. The success of Chinese policy towards Sri Lanka is nevertheless more than an isolated incident and offers insights into what a more assertive Chinese policy could mean for the shaping of a new world order, he wrote.

…James M. Dorsey is an award-winning Journalist and a Senior Fellow at Nanyang Technological University’s S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies in Singapore. He is also an Adjunct Senior Research Fellow at the National University of Singapore’s Middle East Institute and co-director of the University of Wuerzburg’s Institute of Fan Culture in Germany