damiendehorn
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I am talking about an free trade economic union between India, Bhutan, BD, Nepal, Myanmar, Thailand - the starting seeds of which are already visible.
Not about political union. None of us want a political union.
But we have moved from war rhetoric in our region(eastern region of South Asia/start of South East Asia) to free motor vehicle movement, visa-on-arrival for each other, free trade, open access across each other...all this within a 2-3 year period.
I think it is worthy of commendation between the Governments of all our States involved - particularly India, BD and Myanmar. The three countries sorted their issues super fast and practically gave each other all what we wanted from each other!
BD got massive land and sea tracts from India, India got territorial connectivity pass from BD, both BD and India got territorial connectivity pass from Myanmar and Myanmar got sea resolution market and investment from India and BD.
And that's as far as it goes....no need to go any further.