Is China Solving the Rohingya Crisis? on May 4, 2023Chinese foreign minister Qin Gang is said to have reiterated Beijing’s offer to mediate between Myanmar and Bangladesh in “improving” their bilateral ties as the latest attempt to both project itself as a negotiator in global conflicts and emerge as a key player. Qin Gang, who is the highest-ranking Chinese official to meet Myanmar’s top […]
What should be Bangladesh’s “Myanmar Policy” At This Moment? on April 26, 2023Bangladesh and Myanmar have been discussing a pilot project for the past two years to repatriate just over 1,000 Rohingya out of a million Rohingya. But suddenly Myanmar became active in this matter for the last month. A tripartite meeting was arranged in Kunming with the help of the country’s ‘genuine friend’ China, which was […]
Sincerity in Rohingya Repatriation on April 18, 2023Currently, more than 1.2 million Rohingya are living in camps in Cox’s Bazar, Teknaf. Although Bangladesh sheltered these Rohingyas for humanitarian reasons, it has been making strong demands to the international community to take this oppressed population back to Myanmar safely, sustainably and with dignity. The United Nations has described the operation as an act […]
Intensifying Pressure on Myanmar Military on March 30, 2023In 2017, about 1.2 million Rohingyas escaped persecution by Myanmar forces. They are staying in 33 camps and Bhasanchar in Ukhia and Teknaf of Cox’s Bazar. It has not been possible to send even one Rohingya back to Myanmar in the last six years. Bangladesh signed an agreement with Myanmar to repatriate the Rohingya in […]
Myanmar, Bangladesh “Potato Diplomacy” on March 4, 2023Potato is a starchy tuberous crop and becomes an integral part of much of the worldwide food/potato food supply and suppliers. It is the world’s fourth-largest food crop, following maize, wheat and rice. Bangladesh is now one of the big potato-producing and exporting countries in the world. In the year 2021, potato exporters in Bangladesh […]
Gun Violence in US on February 27, 2023The United States is troubled by one gun attack after another. Schools, schools, hospitals, churches, shopping malls, Muslim communities and black people are not spared from gun attacks. In July last year, 21 children lost their lives in a school attack in Texas. The gunman’s name is Salvador Ramos, only 18 years old. In two […]
India, Bangladesh, Myanmar ‘paddy diplomacy’ on January 26, 2023Bangladesh has offered over $40 a tonne more to Indian cooperatives to import 2.5 lakh tonnes of parboiled rice in a government-to-government deal compared with prices quoted by the private trade in a global import tender. The import deal will be through NCCF (National Cooperative Consumers Federation) and Kendriya Bhandar in two tranches with Dhaka […]
Myanmar-Bangladesh ‘fish, salt and areca nut diplomacy’ on January 18, 2023In the cross-border commerce with Bangladesh, Myanmar has been exporting more than it has been importing, with 8,620.7 tonnes of exports to Bangladesh valued at US$10.733 million between April and October of the fiscal year 2022-2023. The two border checkpoints between Myanmar and Bangladesh, Sittway and Maungtaw, saw a 65 percent increase in the sale […]