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#27 Real Issues, Real Voices, Real Japan Podcast – Dr. Monika Chansoria on Sri Lanka’s Economic Crisis


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Listen in as Dr. Monika Chansoria chats with the JAPAN Forward editorial team in a discussion on Sri Lanka’s economic crisis, how it accumulated its heavy burden of debt, and what steps can be taken by this geographically strategic island nation as it faces one of the worst economic failures in modern history.



Dr. Monika Chansoria is a senior fellow at The Japan Institute of International Affairs in Tokyo. She specializes in contemporary Asian security and weapons’ proliferation issues, nuclear strategy, and Great Power politics in the Indo-Pacific. A prolific analyst and writer, find her essays and reports here on JAPAN Forward.







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