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schema:articleBody	A state-backed Chinese firm has become the first foreign owner of a Sri Lankan highway, a boost for Beijing as it battles other regional powers for influence in the island nation. The cabinet on Monday awarded China Harbour Engineering Company (CHEC) a contract to build a 17-kilometre (10.5-mile), four-lane highway in the capital Colombo. CHEC was expected to finish construction in three years and run the highway for 15 years before transferring ownership back to Sri Lanka, cabinet spokesman and energy minister Udaya Gammanpila said Tuesday. Officials involved with feasibility studies on the project said it could cost up to US$1 billion to build. The decision came a week after the government conferred tax-free status to the Chinese-built "Colombo Port City" -- the largest single foreign investment in Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka's main opposition party SJB said the highway project could worsen the battle for influence between Beijing and regional powers such as India and Japan. "Starting with the ports, China's influence now moves inland," SJB legislator Harsha de Silva told AFP. "From a geopolitical perspective, this shows Sri Lanka is moving to one side and that is being pro-China." Sri Lanka last year scrapped a $1.5-billion, Japanese-funded light rail project, saying it was not a "cost-effective solution" for congested Colombo. In March, the government offered a strategically located deep-sea port to India and Japan, a month after abruptly pulling out of an earlier agreement with Delhi and Tokyo to jointly develop another terminal next to a Chinese-run container jetty. In December 2017, unable to repay a huge Chinese loan, Sri Lanka allowed China Merchants Port Holdings to take over the southern Hambantota port, which straddles the world's busiest east-west shipping route. The deal, which gave the Chinese company a 99-year lease, raised fears about Beijing's use of "debt traps" to exert influence abroad. India and the United States have also expressed concerns that a Chinese foothold at Hambantota could give Beijing a military advantage in the Indian Ocean. aj/grk/leg
schema:headline	Beijing-backed firm bags Sri Lanka's foreign highway contract
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