We have discussed before the threat of annexation Bangladesh faces from India:
India may annex parts of Bangladesh
Also we have started discussing possibility of a future Chinese naval base in Chittagong:
Adding a pearl: China looks for a naval base in Bangladesh
In the next few years and decades, the world will be going through some profound shift in geopolitics and balance of power paradigm. China is a rising global power and India is an aspiring regional hegemon. I believe in order for us to survive these changes unscathed and continue our path towards development, we need to balance the geopolitical threat we are facing from a rising India. The West is concerned about China's rise and so is India, Japan and few of China's neighbors. So the West is not going to interfere in Bangladesh and go against its biggest potential ally in the anti-China alliance, except for paying lip service. In this situation, I believe Bangladesh as a country and people must start thinking about how to prevent loosing our land to India, which remains a real possibility in the worst case scenario. We, as a country, with the current condition of our Armed forces have no effective deterrence against this ruinous turn of event. Once India takes over the 3 discussed parts of Bangladesh, it will be too late to do anything about it. So I would like to force Bangladeshi people to think about this worst case scenario and see what solutions we may have to prevent something like this from happening. A military alliance with China with a mutual defense treaty and providing a naval base to China seems to me the only solution that I can think of, that can effectively counter such a possibility.
A note to Awami League supporters, this land, Bangladesh, is your land too. If India annexes Chittagong, Rangpur and Khulna, we will all be loosers, so regardless of political difference between parties in Bangladesh, I would like you to think very carefully about our relationship with China, specially as Hindutva is gaining steam in India and Modi is coming to power.
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