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Pushing or Pulling towards the center of the board. Getting some
notice or it’s a threat from China as Chinese Ambassador to Bangladesh Li
Jiming said on Monday that China-Bangladesh bilateral ties would be substantially
damaged if Dhaka engaged with Quad, according to the media report. The
Quadrilateral Security Dialogue (Quad), an informal security grouping of the
US, Japan, Australia and India, are now seeking to seduce Bangladesh to be part
of their Indo-Pacific strategy tie.
As an important partner of China, Bangladesh signed up to the
China-proposed Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and is a member of the
Bangladesh-China-India-Myanmar Economic Corridor and 21st Century Maritime Silk
Road. One of the crucial aims of both US' and India's Indo-Pacific visions is
to counter the BRI with a bid to contain China's development. Roping in
Bangladesh can help them achieve this goal.
Another Quad member, Japan, is engaged in many areas of
cooperation with Bangladesh as well. For one, Bangladesh's market is appealing
to Japan. Despite its small size, Bangladesh has a population of more than 160
million. For another, out of geopolitical considerations, Tokyo hopes to
counter the BRI. Japan has proposed the Partnership for Quality Infrastructure
and attempted to sign infrastructure deals with Bangladesh. Tokyo, together
with New Delhi and Washington, are really the ones behind the scenes that
instigated Dhaka to call off the Sonadia deep-sea port project that was constructed
by China and turn to cooperate with Japan on another similar program, reported by
the media in 2016.
As a response, Bangladesh Foreign Minister AK Abdul Moment
told local English daily Dhaka Post that, "None of us were invited to the
Quad, nor did we show interest." If what Chinese Ambassador said is the
fact, this will be good. But given that some media outlets, including local
ones, had covered Li's remarks, the news that Bangladesh had been invited to
join the Quad was possibly not be groundless. Bangladesh either had talked with
Quad members over this issue or aim to launch a trial balloon to see China's
reaction.
Bangladesh holds a good balance between major powers. It
actively cooperates with China on economics. At the same time, Dhaka hopes such
cooperation will thus bring more countries to invest in Bangladesh. But it also
hopes a competition over it remains at the economic level instead of at the
political level. Bangladesh raises its value to the regional powers in the Geopolitical
prospective. The strategy should secure the higher economic value from the
international partners as well as stable the position from Underdog to Regional
Power.
