Now Bangladesh provokes India; decides to buy weapons from Chinese manufacturers

[Avicenna]

LOL.

Gotta love Indian media.

 

[zhxy]

Bangladesh's policy is to strike a balance between India and China. Bangladesh wants India to support them economically and defense, but does not want to be an Indian puppet. So Bangladesh needs capital from China to ease the influence of India, and to appease neighbor, Bangladesh will buy more weapons from China and then resell or transfer information to India.

Kill two birds with one stone

 

[Destranator]

Bangladesh's policy is to strike a balance between India and China. Bangladesh wants India to support them economically and defense, but does not want to be an Indian puppet. So Bangladesh needs capital from China to ease the influence of India, and to appease neighbor, Bangladesh will buy more weapons from China and then resell and transfer information to India.
A stone kills 2 birds

We want India to defend us???
Against whom?

Also please provide evidence of Bangladesh passing on Chinese tech to India.
I will wait.

 

[The Accountant]

I think ADS and Awacs will annoy India and a Military base will rattle it... but India is not going to be the only country to NOTICE THIS...

Strategically and politically Bangladesh is not a prominent country and it is in interest of Bangladesh to remain so. I don't think any such purchases by Bangladesh will have much impact on US as they dont have much leverage on Bangladesh and any such purchases by Bangladesh will be of small value and symbolic in nature as as of now Bangali's do not want to enter in world politics nor does they have any high Islamic ambitions that will threat US ambitions in middle east.

Pakistan Turkey and Egypt were always the country whose military is considered as a back bone to Islamic world and after getting nukes Pakistan is even more bigger threats for the countries that want to control world oil trade

 

[Buddhistforlife]

Wait and Watch, brother, the reality will be starkly different than that which you perceive it to be.

I don't know what is wrong with buying Chinese weapons? India knows well that Bangladesh will never buy indian weapons, so India has no win-loss here.



Also

 

[Cliftonite]

Bangladesh is not of much strategic importance besides the Siliguri chicken's neck corridor. It's a flat low lying marshy land that can be invaded easily. India controls it's rivers. India surrounds it from 3 sides. It doesn't offer any strategic depth, neither does it control any strategic waterways.

 

[BDforever]

Strategically and politically Bangladesh is not a prominent country and it is in interest of Bangladesh to remain so. I don't think any such purchases by Bangladesh will have much impact on US as they dont have much leverage on Bangladesh and any such purchases by Bangladesh will be of small value and symbolic in nature as as of now Bangali's do not want to enter in world politics nor does they have any high Islamic ambitions that will threat US ambitions in middle east.

Pakistan Turkey and Egypt were always the country whose military is considered as a back bone to Islamic world and after getting nukes Pakistan is even more bigger threats for the countries that want to control world oil trade

For 1st para, I agree, we just keep building ourselves silently
For 2nd para, we have no interest in it

 

[The Accountant]

For 1st para, I agree, we just keep building ourselves silently
For 2nd para, we have no interest in it

We all know that.

In a recent survey in Pakistani 84% called themselves Muslim first and Pakistani second. I dont think so thats the case with Bangladesh. Can you share some insight?

 

[BDforever]

Bangladesh is not of much strategic importance besides the Siliguri chicken's neck corridor. It's a flat low lying marshy land that can be invaded easily. India controls it's rivers. India surrounds it from 3 sides. It doesn't offer any strategic depth, neither does it control any strategic waterways.

We have different view but leave it there ashen

We all know that.

In a recent survey in Pakistani 84% called themselves Muslim first and Pakistani second. I dont think so thats the case with Bangladesh. Can you share some insight?

We have too pride in our culture, we don't distinguish ourselves whether we are muslim, bengali or hindu, chakma etc

 

[DalalErMaNodi]

We have different view but leave it there singh D


We have too pride in our culture, we don't distinguish ourselves whether we are muslim, bengali or hindu, chakma etc

No need to be Islamic superpower, putting food on all 160m plates is the right dream for us.

 

[Buddhistforlife]

Strategically and politically Bangladesh is not a prominent country and it is in interest of Bangladesh to remain so. I don't think any such purchases by Bangladesh will have much impact on US as they dont have much leverage on Bangladesh and any such purchases by Bangladesh will be of small value and symbolic in nature as as of now Bangali's do not want to enter in world politics nor does they have any high Islamic ambitions that will threat US ambitions in middle east.

Pakistan Turkey and Egypt were always the country whose military is considered as a back bone to Islamic world and after getting nukes Pakistan is even more bigger threats for the countries that want to control world oil trade

Listen defence sector of a country doesn't work that way. Pakistan, Turkey, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Iran has huge military equipment because they are engaged in all sort of conflicts. Bangladesh needs an army which can defend its sovereignty.

Military rankings like Global firepower is bullshit. This is because every country has military power according to its needs. For example a country like Malasia does not need to be in the top military ranking because they dont live in a conflict zone. Whereas Iran lives in a conflict zone and so they need to have a strong military does making its army one of the top 15 militaries in the world.

 

[Homo Sapiens]

The latest move from Bangladesh, a country that got its freedom from Pakistan with the help of the Indian Army, has come amid tensions between India and China. Analysts see the latest purchase of military weapons from China as an act of provocation toward India.



After Nepal, another crucial Indian ally Bangladesh seems to have tilted towards China. According to local media reports, Bangladesh has decided to buy advances military weapons from NORINCO and other Chinese state-owned companies in a bid to achieve Forces Goal 2030, a move to modernise the country's armed forces.

The latest purchase includes tanks, missiles and other military weapons and is part of Bangladesh's ambitious Forces Goal 2030, a modernisation program of the country's Armed Forces which began in 2009.

As part of the Forces Goal 2030, Bangladesh aims to equip its military with modern gear like Night Vision Goggles (NVG), Ballistic helmets, Eye protective gear, Bulletproof vest, person to person communicators, palmtop GPS device and BD-08 assault rifles with a Collimator sight.

Since 2009, Bangladesh has purchased 650 BTR-80 APCs, 50 Otokar Cobra I LAVs, 50 Otokar Cobra II MRAPs and several BOV M11 armoured reconnaissance vehicles. Most of these were bought from China, which happens to be Dhaka's largest weapons supplier.

Act of provocation toward India

The latest move from Bangladesh, a country that got its freedom from Pakistan with the help of the Indian Army, has come amid tensions between India and China. Analysts see the latest purchase of military weapons from China as an act of provocation toward India.

India has favoured and helped Bangladesh on multiple occasions and the experts believe Dhaka's move to increase its closeness with china may result in losing goodwill with New Delhi.

Bangladesh stands to lose more

As Bangladesh's saviour and all-weather ally, India has been financing many of Dhaka's development projects in power, railways, road and transport, health and technical education in addition to investments in textiles, banking and telecommunications.

In 2017-18, bilateral trade between India and Bangladesh was USD 9.5 billion with India's exports pegged at USD 8.6 billion and imports at just USD 0.87 billion. This means India provides most goods and services to Bangladesh.

Experts believe if Dhaka chooses China over India, it may severely dent the country's overall development and will be considered economic suicide by the country. Given the trade deficit, Bangladesh stands to lose much more if the country chooses China over India.


source by Shashi Sharma Jun 22, 2020 09:47 IST

Please add source of the news you have posted. Otherwise some may think you have penned this article.

A lot of Indian journalists seem to be discovering Bangladesh-China defence relation only now! The arms purchases enumerated here are nothing new or sudden development. But they seems to thinking all those purchases are somehow related to the recent clash between them and China! That's why they are using the word 'provokes'. This is absolutely ridiculous.

 

[BDforever]

Listen defence sector of a country doesn't work that way. Pakistan, Turkey, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Iran has huge military equipment because they are engaged in all sort of conflicts. Bangladesh needs an army which can defend its sovereignty.

Military rankings like Global firepower is bullshit. This is because every country has military power according to its needs. For example a country like Malasia does not need to be in the top military ranking because they dont live in a conflict zone. Whereas Iran lives in a conflict zone and so they need to have a strong military does making its army one of the top 15 militaries in the world.

Calm down As if Global firepower knows everything lol. It lost credibility to me few years back when Ranked Nepal above us.

 

[DalalErMaNodi]

Please add source of the news you have posted. Otherwise some may think you have penned this article.

A lot of Indian journalists seem to be discovering Bangladesh-China defence relation only now! The arms purchases enumerated here are nothing new or sudden development. But they seems to thinking all those purchases are somehow related to the recent clash between them and China! That's why they are using the word 'provokes'. This is absolutely ridiculous.

Source is at the bottom of the post.

 

[BDforever]

Please add source of the news you have posted. Otherwise some may think you have penned this article.

A lot of Indian journalists seem to be discovering Bangladesh-China defence relation only now! The arms purchases enumerated here are nothing new or sudden development. But they seems to thinking all those purchases are somehow related to the recent clash between them and China! That's why they are using the word 'provokes'. This is absolutely ridiculous.

Click the small 'source' left below, I know it is so small