Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has now resigned, and before she left, she ordered the release of former Prime Minister Khaleda · Zia, a "more pro-China" opposition leader who is considered "more pro-China," could return to power, and United States has begun to act in the face of the possibility of returning to power.India
On August 5, local time, the country's Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina announced her resignation, and Bangladesh Army Chief of Staff Wak Uzi Zaman announced in a national address that the military would demand the formation of an interim government. According to information from all sides, Hasina herself has left Bangladesh and traveled to India on a military plane. A safe passage has been prepared for the Indian side, after which Hasina will travel to London to join her family.
After her departure, who will take over the post of prime minister of the country is the most important concern of all parties. Currently, the military is negotiating with representatives of political parties and civil society organizations in Bangladesh to form an interim government. A perverse move by Hasina before she left room for reverie. On the 5th, before leaving on a plane, she ordered the release of the country's former prime minister, Khaleda · Zia.
Zia is Bangladesh's first female prime minister, having served as the country's prime minister twice from 1991 to 1996 and from 2001 to 2006, during which she followed the diplomatic line of former Prime Minister Zia· Rahman, attaching importance to and actively developing relations with China. During her first administration, she paid a goodwill visit to China at the invitation of the Chinese side as soon as she won the general election. During the second period of administration, China-Bangladesh relations were further upgraded, and the two sides signed a number of agreements such as the agreement on economic and technical cooperation between the two governments, the handover certificate of the Bangladesh-China Friendship Conference Center, and the exchange of visits between the prime ministers of the two countries within one year, which was an important milestone in the history of the development of China-Bangladesh relations.
Thanks to the solid foundation laid by these successive governments, China-Bangladesh relations have been improving. But during Hasina's administration, Bangladesh moved closer to India diplomatically. The most typical example is last month, when Hasina visited India and China, and discussed the "Teesta River Comprehensive Management and Restoration Project" with India and China respectively. Discerning people can see that China has more advantages in terms of technology and cost, but Hasina still said she wants India to be in charge of the project, citing India's upstream "control" of the water source.
In addition, during last year's G20 summit, India Prime Minister Modi's separate invitation to Hasina was also an extraordinary manifestation of India-Bangladesh relations, and Hasina visited India twice in two weeks this year, further confirming the special friendship between the two countries. India's willingness to prepare safe passage for it this time shows that the relationship between the two prime ministers is not ordinary, but there is no point in discussing these things because of the imminent change of power in Bangladesh. In the face of the possible coming to power of the pro-China faction, the United States has already expressed concern about the candidate for the next prime minister and has taken the lead in taking action.
In the immediate aftermath of the coup d'état in Bangladesh, the US could not wait to implant its own values and ideology. United States State Department spokesman Matthew · Miller called on Bangladesh to establish a "democratic order" and formulated the government that the United States wants, and the Bangladeshi people choose their own government. Kugelman, director of the South Asia Institute of the Wilson Center, an United States think tank, pointed out that the United States and India may reach cooperation in this process. Kugelman said that in the region, United States and India have always had common interests in "resisting China", and from the perspective of the "Indo-Pacific strategy", Bangladesh is also a key player, so United States will strengthen contacts and discussions with India.
From Matthew's current statement, US-India cooperation is already a certainty, but in the past, the Modi government took a clear position and did not only look forward to United States, so in order to win more participation from India, United States will not only maintain contact with India on regime change in Bangladesh, but also try to cooperate and get closer to India's position. India has just reached an agreement with China to resolve the border issue, so this rare Sino-Indian détente may come to naught, in short, the United States has taken action, and China needs to pay more attention to Bangladesh.