- Beijing and Dhaka should “firmly support each other.”
- Yunus’s visit shows Bangladesh “sending a message.”
- China insists on staying a good partner of Dhaka: XI.
Beijing: Chinese president, Xi Jinping, promised more deep cooperation with Bangladesh’s counterpart, Muhammad Yunus, at a meeting that occurred when Dhaka looks for new friends to compensate for frozen ties with India.
Yunus took over Bangladesh last August after the fall of former First Sheikh Hasina Autocratic, who fled to New Delhi after a lifting led by students.
India was the greatest benefactor of the Hasina government, and his expulsion sent cross -border relations to a tail tail, which culminated in Yunus choosing to make his first state visit to China: the largest Asian rival in India.
Xi told Yunus on Friday that Beijing was “willing to work with Bangladesh to bring bilateral cooperation to a new level,” Chino state announcer CCTV reported.
“China … insists on continuing to be a good neighbor, good friend and good partner of Bangladesh, based on mutual trust,” XI said, according to Chinese television.
According to reports, the Chinese leader said that Beijing and Dhaka should “support firmly” in central interests and backed Bangladesh on issues that include safeguarding national sovereignty, independence and territorial integrity.
He added that the two countries would explore cooperation in the construction of infrastructure, water conservation and digital, marine and environmental sectors.
Dhaka said this week that Yunus China’s visit showed that Bangladesh was “sending a message.”
The 84 -year -old Nobel Prize is expected to return home on Saturday after holding several other high -level meetings in the Chinese capital.
Several agreements are expected to sign economic and technical assistance, cultural and sports cooperation, and the collaboration of the media between the two countries, according to the administration of Bangladesh.
The conversations are also expected to touch the immense population of Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh, most of which fled a violent military repression in neighboring Myanmar in 2017.
China has acted as a mediator between Bangladesh and Myanmar in the past to negotiate the repatriation of the persecuted minority, although the efforts stagnated due to the lack of will of Myanmar to return them.
Indian tensions
Senior figures in Indian governments and Bangladesh have changed to the spikes before Yunus stay to Beijing.
These tensions have almost completely stopped the trips from Bangladesh to India for medical tourism, thousands of which the border crossed every year to seek attention in their largest neighbor.
The main bureaucrat of the Dhaka Foreign Ministry said this week that the conversations in Beijing would play the establishment of a Chinese friendship hospital in Bangladesh.
Yunus’s administration administration has the unvoyable task of instilling democratic reforms before the new expected elections in mid -2026.
He has requested, so far without success, that India allows the extradition of Hasina to face charges of crimes against humanity for the murder of hundreds of protesters during the riots that knocked down his government.
Yunus has also sought a meeting with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in an attempt to restore relationships, and both are expected to be at the same regional summit in Bangkok next month.
His government has not yet received an answer, with the Minister of Foreign Affairs of India, S Jaishankar, saying that the application was “under review.”
