In Bangladesh, a government without a foreign policy

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Bangladesh, a country of 170 million people, is sitting on the hotbed of the geo-strategic Bay of Bengal with an economy of US$470 billion, increasingly getting traction from great powers. In recent years, the country has made headlines for its economic success, more recently also for economic debacle. But the most unprecedented attention it gets is due to Indo-Pacific geopolitical reconfiguration on […]Continue Reading

Pakistan must review its food trade profile

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The war in Ukraine continues to send shockwaves around the globe. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine was a disaster foretold, yet there was little action on the part of most of the trading partners of these countries. In spite of the fact that tensions had been simmering and continually escalating over the previous eight years, our […]Continue Reading

West-China co-existence: some inconvenient truths

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China is the center of the global production network. It is the largest trading partner for all its neighbors and has fueled economic growth in and out of the Indo-Pacific region for decades. According to the McKinsey Global Institute, even during the Covid-19 pandemic, trade deepened between China and the United States, Canada, Japan, Southeast Asia, and the […]Continue Reading

Digital infrastructure propels new SE Asian Tigers

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China’s exports to Southeast Asia jumped by 20% in 2022, despite a year-on-year decline in China’s total exports driven by a 19% drop in exports to the US and a 17% drop in exports to the European Union. Southeast Asia’s 700 million people stand at the cusp of an economic transformation comparable to the rise […]Continue Reading

Pakistan’s economy in ‘collapse’ as IMF visits

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POLITICAL MAYHEM Pakistan is locked in an endless cycle of servicing external debt. State Bank governor Jamil Ahmed last month said that the country owed US$33 billion in loans and other foreign payments before the end of the fiscal year in June. A diplomatic offensive has seen US$4 billion rolledContinue Reading