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yes but if you BD transit, you will get huge benefit comparing to current option
Kolkata-NE connection via BD is a politcally sensitive issue in BD. However, your proposed India-NE-Burma-Thailand route to connect India with ASEAN is a detour and is not feasible when thought in the context of the economic benefits.
The natural route is Kolkata-BD-Burma-Thailand and onward to south to Malaysia and Singapore, and towards east to Vietnam.
Your propsed route is not practical because the real destinations are in the south that can only be penetrated by India through BD.
I sometimes think if only India discards its Big Dada policy, BIMSTEC will be reality, and I believe it will be much stronger an economic association than ASEAN itself. All the BIMSTEC countries are thriving forward except Burma. But, without Burma BIMSTEC cannot be materialized.
Bangladesh will be nothing without cooperation with India.
Bangladesh will be nothing without cooperation with India.
Bangladesh should aim to become the transit hub. This will shape or will play an important secondary role to its economic activities. Routes are India-BD-ASEAN, and India-BD-Burma-China. All three blocks around BD have big markets, and land route through BD, specially the railway transit is the fastest and cheapest.
BD can indeed become the economic hub in SE Asia. Indians, please understand that Uncle Sam decided that BoB is the responsibilty of BD. Now, the same Uncle Sam is telling the world that BD belongs to SE Asia. So, what does it implies?
and your point is ?
Did you read it,
But if we are to link this route to say Southern India or even Western India then yes BD would be a beneficial link since it would be a much shorter route to extend that link through BD than over Indian territory itself..the same principle that applies to the current transit link being worked upon by BD and India. Ergo any linkage through BD is important in the context of extending the current I-B-T link to the rest of India in the future, something which I think is sure to fructify in the future dependent on our dealings with BD.
yes and it is all about politics, do not worry Hasina is not coming back to power Last time myself voted Hasina, this time
Connecting China with Bangladesh via Myanmar is rather tricky though. The high-security fence that separates them has the distinction of being the only fortified international border that suits the purposes of both sides. Bangladesh and Myanmar are unified in their desire that the fence must stand tall and prevent the exodus of Rohingyas from Myanmar, as happened in the 1990s. (While Myanmar seems none too hospitable towards its Rohingya population, it does want to retain control over their movements.)
Sheikh Hasina has agreed to allow India to use its territory for transit. But the absence of proper roads makes the concession meaningless. And so India has been making plans without Bangladesh to secure access to its landlocked north-eastern states, via Myanmar. It is developing a deep-sea port in Sittwe, the capital of Rakhine state in Myanmar. The port is 500-odd km from Kolkata, India’s main port on the Bay of Bengal and part of India’s so-called Kaladan Multi-Modal Transit Transport Project—a gateway to India’s landlocked north-eastern states. Rather conveniently, Sittwe is also close to Myanmar’s massive Shwe gasfield. The idea will be to run a canal, highway and possibly a pipeline from Sittwe to a newly constructed river port in Myanmar’s Chin state, and then on to the border with the Indian state of Mizoram. The project is expected to become operational by mid-2013. And so Bangladesh looks likely to be left in its isolation.
I wanted you to read these two paragraphs.
Bangladesh and its near-abroad: The begums and the two giants | The Economist
1. we started constructing roads to connect with Myanmar
2. what SH said is just verbal not fully operational, of course we want to give you transit but not without benefit.
3. Explain more about Myanmar utilization