![]() including financing modalities, to construct the deep-sea port as we want a win-win position,' Mejbahuddin added. By Mizan RahmanDhakaBangladesh has decided to ink a deal with China to build the Payra deep-sea port after it shelved the much-hyped Sonadia deep-sea port multi-billion project. Tiger v Dragon is on BBC Radio 4 on Monday 10 May and 17 May at 2000 BST. Among six top priority projects Sonadia deep seaport project involving 16 billion was placed under the Fast Track Project Monitoring directly by the Prime Minister. If China is granted Sonadia’s deep-sea port project it will gain further access to the Indian Ocean, and an alternative route for energy imports, it noted. "I think it will also happen in Bangladesh," he says. He hopes his new bridge, and the Chinese-built port, will help Bangladesh benefit from China's boom. Through the Chinese development of deep-sea ports and submarine base construction, China is leaving a permanent footprint in Bangladesh. "You know, about 20 years ago, China was also a very poor country," he says. He left his native city of Wuhan in China to spend three years living in a prefabricated building in the Bangladeshi heat. Next to the bridge, I meet Shar Wei - the project's 28-year-old chief engineer. The funds for this bridge came from a Gulf country, and a Chinese firm has done the work. It then crosses a suspension bridge built of gleaming white concrete. I am stunned when a single track road surrounded by slums suddenly turns into a four-lane motorway. The planned Sonadia port would have been part of the so-called string of pearls plana collection of Chinese-constructed deep-sea ports in Burma, Bangladesh, Pakistan and Sri Lanka aimed. I see the remarkable impact for myself on the outskirts of Chittagong. Impoverished Bangladesh is hoping to capitalise on its location between China and India to develop its economy. The present government has started working regarding the construction of deep-sea port. The bridge is a symbol of a new era in Chittagong The governments after 1990s, several times talked about deep sea ports, but no action was taken to materialise the issue. "Bangladesh will never let any part of its territory be used for any kind of attacks or anything like that," she says. "I don't believe if China helps us build this sea port, that China will be able to use it for other purposes," I'm told by Dr Dipu Moni, Bangladesh's foreign minister.īangladesh wants to be seen as a "bridge" from China to India, and is careful not to offend either of its giant neighbours. ![]() Mr Hu believes Washington is playing games and trying to cosy up to India, as it becomes increasingly concerned about China's rise.īangladesh is also adamant that there is nothing in its plans to concern India. The phrase "string of pearls" to describe China's strategy for building ports was originally used by analysts working for the US Department of Defense. "It was minted by a young Pentagon guy," he points out. Mr Hu says the Indians are being paranoid when they talk of a "string of pearls". It's a tightly guarded government-run facility in Beijing which analyses foreign affairs and directly advises China's leaders.Ĭhina is keen to reassure the world that it has no hostile intent.
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