@beijingwalker
@Chinese-Dragon
Did you notice that you have 4 thanks here and all from Indians. Indians would like nothing better than for BD to cut it's links with China and they can dominate and bully BD as they like.
Yes, China has somewhat let BD down here but isn't most of the blame with BD here?
BD has a GDP 3.5x that of Myanmar yet Myanmar has better weapons and more of them. Do you not think there is something seriously wrong here? Both BNP and Awami League(although they do buy some modern weapons once in a while) have never been serious to have a strong defence. I am not talking about eating arms like Myanmar used to do but to build a military that would totally dominate tiny(yes Myanmar is tiny compared to BD) and have deterrence against India.
Why do some BD people think that India is as important as China? Yes, India has geographical borders with BD but it is just as underdeveloped as BD is. It is in no position to give BD massive loans at low interest rates, absorb BD exports or supply weapons.
Do you know that since China has opened it's market to BD products back in 2010, BD exports have risen an average of 30% a year from 170 million US dollars to 1 billion US dollars now. With China rapidly becoming uncompetitive in garments, China is actually shifting many of it's garment factories to BD and then exporting back into China to serve it's own 1.3 billion domestic market. By keeping close to China BD can grow this into many billions, even 10s of billions of exports by the 2030s as the Chinese consumer market will be as large as the whole of the West combined by then!
Yes, BD should diversify and and have relations with West and Muslim countries but the West is far away while China is close. West does not want a properous Asia like China does and we must all remember that. I have no idea why Awami League did not think it a good idea to cultivate close ties with Muslim countries like Turkey who will always stand by BD in situations like this - maybe she was too busy getting revenge on opponents in 1971 to care?