Containing China: A helpless hope?

China may have spawned a second East-West conflict through two flanks: its Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), an economically-driven ice-breaking global leadership announcement; and its South China Sea politically/militarily-designed island-construction. At stake is the economically frayed Atlantic order, its managers reduced to merely constructing political/military defences.This is not the first...

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Infrastructure development: Mobilising resources domestically and globally

One of the key themes shared by the narratives of rapid economic rise of Japan, South Korea, China, and the Asian Tiger economies, has been the expansion of global trade. As Bangladesh continues its own growth journey, one needs to be keenly aware of the shifts in geopolitical attitudes, particularly...

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