Bangladesh has two good hands for China and India

China is the country of Confucius, so it is easy to reach for them to this goal.

by Swadesh Roy

( December 13, 2016, Dhaka, Sri Lanka Guardian) Bangladesh has two good neighbours, one is China and the other is India; on the other hand, the Prime Minister of Bangladesh has two very good hands to catch these two friends; with her good left hand she has made a good handshake with China and the same thing, her right hand has done with India.

Once Bangladesh was a part of Indian subcontinent, so Bangladesh and India carry same cultural heritage and in the same way, total Asian hearts belong to a unified culture, this is why a common hopes, aspirations, and love go with Asia along with Bangladesh and China. However, a big difference exists between Bangladesh and China; the society of China is regimented but the society of Bangladesh is very much argumentative. The Indian society is same argumentative. There are a huge number of beauties go with argumentative society. An argumentative society must be a knowledge-based society. Nowadays technology is dominating over the high thinking knowledge, so a high thinking mental-demography is not the only main indicator for the development of the present world. Although Technological indicator is now the main index number of development, it is not a permanent indicator; it is for the time being.

However, once Confucius was the main identity of China but now Alibaba. By the magic of Alibaba, China is taking the business in all over the world including Bangladesh. In Bangladesh, not only the consumer market but also everyone in the investment market can see, China is taking the lion part because of their () sound economy and technological power. India wants to do business in Bangladesh and they are the closer neighbour than China, so they can get more facilities comparing to China; but they cannot take the total opportunity because of their less powerful economy. In Bangladesh both China and India have credit investment facilities, in the mean time, China has taken 30 billion but on the other hand, India has taken only two billions. In () near future, China will get more business opportunity in Bangladesh, so many businessmen of China are now trying to shift their factories to Bangladesh because of their wage policies. Moreover the present president of China has declared the minimum wage of the labour of their country which is hundred times more than previous salary.

A huge number of Chinese businessmen made factories in () new suburb, their plan was that they would start it one after another within five to ten years but after this new wage declaration, they are calculating that if they go for starting those factories, it will be their loosing concern due to high wage of the workers. In the East and South Asia, only Bangladesh is the country which is able to give cheap and skill labour next ten years, so Chinese businessmen are now rushing towards Bangladesh. If you go any five star hotel in Bangladesh, you will get at least sixty to seventy chines businessmen out of hundred businessmen. Even some of them are searching lobbyist for getting business permission in Bangladesh. Not only in the produces goods but also in infrastructure development, Chinese are investing their money. One European investor, who is a MD of a company, confessed that their working quality is good but China is now a new kind of demon, they can do anything at any type of less profit; sometimes to wipe out the other countries’ company, they do business without profit. That is why; the opinion of that MD, within very short time, Europe may lose their investment capacity in Bangladesh. Despite, whatever happens in the economy sector in Bangladesh, Europe has no way to cut or leave the market of Bangladesh. Now Europe cannot think of a happy Marry Xmas without the manufacturing clothes of Bangladesh, and that will not confine to garment forever. In very near future, the European office will be run by Apple computer as well as iPhone which will be manufactured in Bangladesh. Chinese businessmen are trying to create that business hub in Bangladesh using the young labour and other economy favourite circumstances of Bangladesh.

If China goes in that way, somebody may think India will lose its all stakes in Bangladesh but reality is not like that. First, Chinese stakes will help india first because, if China wants to continue its economic activities in Bangladesh, it is more necessary a politically stable Bangladesh; all the neighbours of this delta, only India can help to run Bangladesh with a stable politics, it is not because that India is the regional super power, it is because () Bangladesh and India both are democratic country and argumentative society. If Bangladesh runs with a political stability, obviously China will invest more in Bangladesh but as a friendly neighbour, India will get its result too. Besides India, the good neighbour of Bangladesh, west will get also more benefit from Bangladesh. Like Bangladesh and India -the western democratic countries are with argumentative society. So there is another social and political rapport lies with India, Bangladesh, and west. And it is true if you want to make a sustainable social and economic development, you must have to build a society of divers. A regimental society and a dictatorial government can take an economy at least to a certain stage, after that it needed to build up a society and a government which will be run by flourishing of different opinion. When a society get a natural opportunity of making hundreds of thousands of opinions, then the society become a live society. Without a live society, a cultural and knowledge based society is impossible. If a society is not being cultural and knowledge based, it cannot save their economy. China has understood that, this is why, the present government of China has taken decision, they will reach to a society of different opinions within 2040. Though it is 25 years more, but china has to make that society, which is belonged to India, west and Bangladesh. China has seen the fate of the formers of Soviet Union, so they will not continue long time an autocratic government. Even before the fall of Soviet Union, China has started to change their society to reach a coca cola and now they have reached Ali Baba. Coca cola to Ali Baba is mainly the path of changing free economy, not the society of open sky of knowledge. So within 2040 China wants to open the society for sky of knowledge. China is the country of Confucius, so it is easy to reach for them to this goal. So, when China will open its sky for knowledge, then automatically this three country will get a same harmonic society and then they can run with a harmony like west. All the European countries don’t belong to same powerful economy, they do not get the same facilities from all countries but they run friendly because of cultural harmony. Within thirty to fifty years, China, India and Bangladesh will reach on that path.

Swadesh Roy, Executive Editor, The Daily Janakantha, Dhaka, Bangladesh he can be reached swadeshroy@gmail.com