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In this photo taken on April 17, 2019, a man walks past a billboard showing the intended design of the Chinese-funded Port City on reclaimed land in Colombo. - When it is completed, Port City will effectively double Colombo's size and be part of a glimmering troika of new, Chinese-funded islands alongside a man-made archipelago off Malaysia and a planned futuristic metropolis adjoining Manila. (Photo by LAKRUWAN WANNIARACHCHI / AFP) / TO GO WITH China-diplomacy-trade-Malaysia-Sri Lanka-Philippines,FOCUS by Poornima WEERASEKARA (Photo credit should read LAKRUWAN WANNIARACHCHI/AFP/Getty Images)