Bangladesh strikes nearer to China whereas India waits and watches

“Seven states of India, jap a part of India, referred to as seven sisters… they’re landlocked nation, landlocked area of India…they haven’t any solution to attain out to the ocean…we’re the one guardian of the ocean for all this area. So, this opens up an enormous risk. So, this may very well be an extension of the Chinese language economic system. Construct issues, produce issues, market issues, carry issues to China, carry it out to the entire remainder of the world,” he stated.

Kolkata, which was the popular vacation spot for Bangladeshis searching for medical therapy, too can be trying anxiously to medical tourism shifting to south China.

4 hospitals in Kunming, 1,700 km by highway from Chittagong, have been put aside by China for the therapy of sufferers from Bangladesh, reported each the Dhaka Tribune and Every day Star. New flights between Kunming and Chittagong to be launched in April will scale back journey prices and time, making it simpler for extra Bangladeshis to entry healthcare in China, reported the 2 newspapers.

In March 2025, a gaggle of Bangladeshis travelled to Kunming for therapy for the primary time; whereas praising the standard of the hospitals, many expressed issues over excessive journey prices. In April, Bangladesh plans to ship a big group of journalists to Kunming to look at the therapy amenities firsthand.

China has been Bangladesh’s largest buying and selling associate for 15 consecutive years, Yunus identified, and claimed that there are practically 1,000 Chinese language enterprises working in Bangladesh. “Bangladesh’s imports from China are rising. The majority of our industrial-use merchandise come from China,” he was quoted as saying. He famous that Bangladesh oversees the whole Bay of Bengal, offering vital entry to international markets via this strategic waterway. “So, Bangladesh is your gateway not just for Bangladesh itself however for 3 different main areas. You’ll be able to leverage some great benefits of doing enterprise on this whole area via Bangladesh,” he added.

The 2 nations additionally introduced the signing of a industrial settlement for the modernisation and enlargement of Mongla port, the constructing of a robotic physiotherapy and rehabilitation centre, and the donation of a cardiac surgical procedure automobile.