The president of debt-ridden Sri Lanka has asked China to help restructure billions of dollars in debt repayments as part of a solution to counter the economic fallout from the coronavirus pandemic, the presidential secretariat said on Sunday. During his meeting with visiting Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, President Gotabaya Rajapaksa said that “it would be a great relief to the country if the attention could be paid on restructuring the debt repayments as a solution to the economic crisis that has arisen in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic,” his office said in a statement. Rajapaksa also requested China to provide a concessional trade-credit scheme for Chinese imports and to assist in enabling Chinese tourists to travel to Sri Lanka under the bio-bubble concept, it stated. Sri Lanka is reported to have to meet about $4.5 billion in debt repayments this year, starting with a $500 million international sovereign …