India only has influence in the political arena and that's all. Ask any random Bangladeshi in BD and see their sentiments on the bigger neighbor. Our military is trained keeping India in mind as the biggest threat. That speaks volume.
What is dependent is our own perceived military strength that Myanmar isn't taking too seriously as they are confident of getting the better of us if a conflict strikes. Why else do you think they violated our airspace more than 15 times? As our all military eggs are in Chinese basket, Myanmar...
I've repeated this before as well - we reduce our military dependence on them. That's the first and foremost step we should take. Expand military ties with Turkey and EU (we should be doing it anyway) and build up our military complexes. Under this scenario, the Burmese would be obliged to be...
See, we are all disappointed at their public stance on this issue. No denying that. However, my guess is that China did so to avoid US/EU from getting any access/foothold in the region's natural resources and corridor to BoB. That probably also explains why Russia did it too. But we also cannot...
Great, then I believe we are on the same page. I look forward to China pulling strings behind the scene and convincing Burma in taking back their people at the earliest.
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Yes surely, our people are very anti-conflict and don't have the time to bicker for it as well as we have our own internal issues to handle. However, none of those issues are as big and will be sorted out with time. We have no visible dire enemies who are after our existence too but that...
@Philia @UKBengali
I think both of you are speaking on the same page. I guess, we all agree more or less here that no one should be severing ties with China. That would be dumb given because we need them for our interests and we need them probably as a good partner in building our...
Agreed. We need to cultivate our diplomatic relations with western powers, mainly UK and France. I am still skeptical about US as it renders a lot of strings attached but however, having them by our side at least diplomatically is a big boon.
And the write is spot on with forging stronger...
As good of an idea it sounds, its not possible due to numerous logistical and political reasons. This could have been however done during the mass migration of refugees last year to EU as quite clearly, they were not only Syrians.
Currently, given the situation and possible future threat to the...
Expected. Anyone who is hoping for anything otherwise probably doesn't understand world politics.
Problem is the situation is getting nowhere and it will only worsen the plight of these people.
South India has been a hub for IT outsourcing for ages and its true. Moreover, IT specialists coming from that region have done well worldwide. When I worked for MasterCard & Rocket Internet GmbH in Dubai, their whole back-end IT team comprised of mainly south Indians, providing IT...
I'd reckon that is a failure on our part to keep up the warm relations we once had with Japan, who helped us build our country from scratch. If we had played our cards well, we could still have had a economic/military/diplomatic powerhouse like them looking out for us, which I think is a big...
We should very gradually look to move away from Chinese dependence on these large projects and diversify our contractor base. How about Japan?
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