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

[leonblack08]

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

(no I did not write this, article, source is linked above.)

Typical Indian Sanghi.

Entitled like a spoilt brat- angry that Bangladesh isn't serving them for eternity for 1971.

This one cent "journalist" need to research China is the only country we have a security and defence pact with. We have been buying Chinese arms for decades.

Not to mention, compared to India's false promises on trade and so called 8 billion investment, most of which haven't yet materialized, China keeps their word and has around 40 billion in actual investment to show for.

 

[Jobless Jack]

India has always employed bullying tactics under its guise of regional cooperation. Congress leadership had kept diplomatic relations to its prime and had managed to isolate Pakistan in this region but BJP being bunch of Racist and hegemonic reverted back entire decade worth of goodwill for sake of their Hindutva pride. I feel soon Bangladeshi border front will also heat up when Modi govt will start repatriating Bengali refugees en mass.

Not yet.. As long as awami league is in power no chance.

However if the Bengal border heats up, it will be the worst fire of all, because due to 50 years dominance( diplomatically), India practically has no asset to manage a crisis at the bengal border, hence when the bengal border does heat up. The fence wont hold, when the bengal border heats up, it will be the worst of all india borders, because BSF already has diffuculty controlling the border despite having a friendly govt in Dhaka.. imagine what will happen if an unfriendly govt comes in Dhaka... its open season and BSF is sitting duck!

 

[Pandora]

Not yet.. As long as awami league is in power no chance.

However if the Bengal border heats up, it will be the worst fire of all, because due to 50 years dominance( diplomatically), India practically has no asset to manage a crisis at the bengal border, hence when the bengal border does heat up. The fence wont hold, when the bengal border heats up, it will be the worst of all india borders, because BSF already has diffuculty controlling the border despite having a friendly govt in Dhaka.. imagine what will happen if an unfriendly govt comes in Dhaka... its open season and BSF is sitting duck!

There is a limit upto which haseena can appease Modi and i believe she already started feeling the heat after BJP uped its ante against Bengali immigrants which contribute to Bangladeshi economy. BJP has been using an extremely racist regressive tone regarding Bangladeshi immigrants in India. Indian economy is in slumps due to Covid 19 and i think India will take this opportunity to send back Bangladeshi immigrants. India will open multiple fronts and blame it all on others for their social and economic ills. Make sure you keep an eye on Indo Pak LOC bcz soon there will be Indian initiated conflict there followed by Nepal and lastly Bangladesh.

 

[Xerxes22]

India has always employed bullying tactics under its guise of regional cooperation. Congress leadership had kept diplomatic relations to its prime and had managed to isolate Pakistan in this region but BJP being bunch of Racist and hegemonic reverted back entire decade worth of goodwill for sake of their Hindutva pride. I feel soon Bangladeshi border front will also heat up when Modi govt will start repatriating Bengali refugees en mass.

At the end of the day , what else do u expect a chay wala to do ? Domestic kuttey-Bazi politics nd international strategic politics are not the same. A chay wala cant do the latter. And there’s no lack of chay wala politicians in India.

 

[Jobless Jack]

There is a limit upto which haseena can appease Modi and i believe she already started feeling the heat after BJP uped its ante against Bengali immigrants which contribute to Bangladeshi economy. BJP has been using an extremely racist regressive tone regarding Bangladeshi immigrants in India. Indian economy is in slumps due to Covid 19 and i think India will take this opportunity to send back Bangladeshi immigrants. India will open multiple fronts and blame it all on others for their social and economic ills. Make sure you keep an eye on Indo Pak LOC bcz soon there will be Indian initiated conflict there followed by Nepal and lastly Bangladesh.

You dont get it, Indo bangla border is not like loc, Anyone can cross it, those who get shot is because they either cannot pay bribe or BSF is under pressure to produce result. There wont be mass deportations, west bengal and assam are already in all but officially part of bangladesh. As many bangladeshis have family or relatives living there, the first attempt at deportation and the bengali muslim will cross border enmass, there is nothing Haseena or BSf can do about it sadly.

As for pulwama like drama, again no chance, at best modi can do is start anti muslim riots in kolkata, but that will only increase muslim immigration into india, BSF does not have the resource to stop the in and out flow of immigration at indo bangla border , if they cannot do this howcan they turn it into loc ? and this is at a peace time with a friendly govt in dhaka. If modi does false attack on BD or at indo bangla boder , he will create a flame that may result in the break up of the NE of India

 

[Homo Sapiens]

BJP uped its ante against Bengali immigrants which contribute to Bangladeshi economy. BJP has been using an extremely racist regressive tone regarding Bangladeshi immigrants in India

There is no sizable Bangladeshi Muslim migrants in India. There are millions of Hindus in India with Bangladeshi ancestry who gone to India as a result of 1947 partition related displacement. But there is no sizable Bangladeshi Muslim economic migrant in India. Sanghi scum brand native Bengali Muslims in West Bengal and Assam as 'illegal Bangladeshi' which is outright false and politically manipulated.

 

[Pandora]

There is no sizable Bangladeshi Muslim migrants in India. There are millions of Hindus in India with Bangladeshi ancestry who gone to India as a result of 1947 partition related displacement. But there is no sizable Bangladeshi Muslim economic migrant in India. Sanghi scum brand native Bengali Muslims in West Bengal and Assam as 'illegal Bangladeshi' which is outright false and politically manipulated.

I wouldnt expect anything less from those sanghi rodents. Bangladesh should arm itself to teeth just in case Modi gets an itch up his hole to heat things up on border.

 

[Arulmozhi Varman]

Some guys who had no experience in foreign relations suddenly became Woke specialists and began writing articles with stupid titles. I mean Bangladesh has been buying Chinese weapons for a long time. But this woke guy noticed it only today and decided to name himself foreign affairs expert journo.

 

[Cliftonite]

I have no doubt that Bangladeshi people will repel India but their ruling lady aka dictator Ms Hasina Wajid and ruling government casts a lot of doubts. When and if the time comes to respond, end this monster called India once and for all and reunite with West Bengal and Assam like you were meant to be.

 

[Buddhistforlife]

WHere it is evident that bringing religion bring disasters?

1. The biggest war world see (WW1 and WW2) were on the base of race and not the religion yet we still see Germans still proud of race and germany is still a country.
2. Cold war was based on economic system and not race.
3. Iraq war was based on a dictator brought by US and then again down by US who had no love for religion.
4. Current Syria war is due to the fact a monarch king dont want to leave the power and hence an infighting begins. He dont know anything about Shiaisim.
5. Vitenam war had nothing to do with Islam.
6. Israel is a perfect example of a modern educated country formed on the basis of religion and has a Jeudaisim as its official religion as well as basis of citizenship. INfact in terms of new developments specially in AI, Israel is the most advance country in the world.

Islamic state or any religion based state is not a problem. The problem is with the current world we are living in. A theocratic country can never prosper in this age and day because of many factors.

Firstly in today's world, religious based country discriminates minorities. This is a human rights violation. This is not the fault of religion though. The problem is in a country like which has democracy mixed with religion means that opposition and dirty politicians will be using religion for their benefits and will attack minorities to achieve their goal. This is happening in many Islamic countries, Buddhist countries and Christian countries.

Then, religious based country does not care about geopolitics and mostly goes with emotion. In this age and day geopolitics is very very important for a country's survival. The best example is Afghanistan-Pakistan relation. Afghanistan and Pakistan are muslim countries and Pakistan considered Afghanistan as their muslim brother and blindly believed them. As a result Pakistan suffered from terrorism for decades.

Next clergy. A religious clergy can never run a nation. Do you think people like Khadim Hussein Rizvi, Maulana Fazlur Rehman can run a state? Do you think Zakir Naik or Maulana Tariq Jameel knows how to run a state?

If you give Molvis or Ulemas the power to run the nation, then they will destroy it completely because they don't have adequate knowledge in the field of science, economics, agriculture etc.

A religion based state is well suited if you are a monarchy. But religion mixed with democracy is a complete disaster.

 

[M.Bison]

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

(no I did not write this, article, source is linked above.)

Why is India upset? What alternative does it provide to the Bangladeshis? India is barely a producer and is lining up to buy from countries like Russia, Israel, Europe, and America? Man, Indians are really stupid. Indian military manufacturing is the worst and the Majority of its stuff is on license by the Russians. The navy won't even buy Tejas and what submarines do the Indians produce? I'm not talking about Arihant class because I'm sure they would give Bangladesh a nuclear-powered submarine.. If I was Bangladeshi, I would tell India to **** off real quick.

 

[lonelyman]

I suppose this is as good a time as any to introduce you to Sanghi Journalism.

Quality : zilch

Credibility : nada

Rant : 100%

Veiled Insults : 10000%

Butthurtness : 999999999999999999999999999999999%

epic

 

[Bilal9]

It's a flat low lying marshy land that can be invaded easily.

Well I have severe doubts about some 'invader' doing this 9 months out of the year because of weather. There is a reason Indian Army moved in during December 1971. They had to wait until when the rains stopped. Look at the level of precipitation in Bengal on the left.

Entire Bangladesh is flooded half the year, though flat the terrain is still filled with shallow water which is a logistics nightmare for any army. This is off topic here though, don't want to go into it.

 

[Destranator]

Why is India upset? What alternative does it provide to the Bangladeshis? India is barely a producer and is lining up to buy from countries like Russia, Israel, Europe, and America? Man, Indians are really stupid. Indian military manufacturing is the worst and the Majority of its stuff is on license by the Russians. The navy won't even buy Tejas and what submarines do the Indians produce? I'm not talking about Arihant class because I'm sure they would give Bangladesh a nuclear-powered submarine.. If I was Bangladeshi, I would tell India to **** off real quick.

Let them bi*ch and moan. It's entertaining.

 

[The Accountant]

Islamic state or any religion based state is not a problem. The problem is with the current world we are living in. A theocratic country can never prosper in this age and day because of many factors.

Firstly in today's world, religious based country discriminates minorities. This is a human rights violation. This is not the fault of religion though. The problem is in a country like which has democracy mixed with religion means that opposition and dirty politicians will be using religion for their benefits and will attack minorities to achieve their goal. This is happening in many Islamic countries, Buddhist countries and Christian countries.

Then, religious based country does not care about geopolitics and mostly goes with emotion. In this age and day geopolitics is very very important for a country's survival. The best example is Afghanistan-Pakistan relation. Afghanistan and Pakistan are muslim countries and Pakistan considered Afghanistan as their muslim brother and blindly believed them. As a result Pakistan suffered from terrorism for decades.

Next clergy. A religious clergy can never run a nation. Do you think people like Khadim Hussein Rizvi, Maulana Fazlur Rehman can run a state? Do you think Zakir Naik or Maulana Tariq Jameel knows how to run a state?

If you give Molvis or Ulemas the power to run the nation, then they will destroy it completely because they don't have adequate knowledge in the field of science, economics, agriculture etc.

A religion based state is well suited if you are a monarchy. But religion mixed with democracy is a complete disaster.

First of all there ia no evudence that relogion is a hurdle to modernisim.

Secondly being relogious never means u give country leadership to religious scholars.

Khadim rizvi is a product of illetracy and not relogion. Do u think callong name ia allowed in islam ? But he continously do so.

Moulana tariq jamil, zakir naik being educated and true muslim scholars will never try to become political leaders.

Central asia states like kazlhstan turkemanistan mongoloa or east europ and far east asian country loke philpine are nit religious infact they are anti religion but still poor. Why?

Basically its illetracy lack or effecient working lack of modern technology. Tell me where does islam stop u do to phd in quantum physics ? Or do u think praying 5 times a day will stop u to study quantum physics ?

Is ot islam who put PIA and Steel Mills at loss by ober stafging ? Or was it fue to any religious duty ?

Atleast understand your problem correctly. Its lack of education and modern technology and islam is no where against modern technology.

West is leading the world since 2 ywars but before that it was all muslims. All the scientific inventions before 17th century were from muslims scholars and they were following religion as well.