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I refer to your article, "Coronavirus: Hong Kong, Singapore in talks again over postponed travel bubble, extra safeguards mulled" (February 20). I understand that tourism has been hard hit, the unemployment rate has risen, and that it is difficult to depend merely on the government's support. Yet the travel bubble concept is nonetheless problematic. The greatest difficulty in implementing the travel bubble is to ensure that population movements.
Sri Lanka's foreign minister said the 99-year lease of the Hambantota port to China could be extended to 198 years, calling it a "mistake" made by the previous government, after reports that Colombo was revisiting the agreement. The port deal - signed in 2017 by the previous Sri Lankan government to cover its debts to China - has been the subject of intense international scrutiny amid accusations Beijing is using "debt trap diplomacy" for.