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“What is also very important that Indo-China relations over the last 10 years have improved phenomenally. India is one of the largest trading partners of China. Their relations are improving. So we need not to worry that one is at the cost of the other. “This is not a zero-sum game. It’s a positive-sum game. We get benefit with all these initiatives and we should place ourselves into these.” Ambassador Zhang Zuo said the Bangladesh-China Silk Road Forum is being established “at the right moment when there is a lot to be achieved”. “Bangladesh’s diplomatic policy of “friend to all, malice to none” and President Xi Jinping’s ‘Thought of diplomacy’, both have provided new opportunities for win-win cooperation for our two countries,” he said. “Bangladeshi people’s dream of a strong and wealthy nation, manifested in the dream of Sonar Bangla, and the Chinese dream of national rejuvenation pursued by the Chinese people, are interconnected.” Zuo hoped that this forum “could pay attention to telling good stories about China-Bangladesh friendship, passing on the voices in the communication and exchanges between our two countries, and building this forum into an important bridge for China-Bangladesh connectivity.” Next year, Bangladesh and China will mark the 45th anniversary of diplomatic ties. “We need to work together to create a congenial atmosphere for cooperation and deepen our policy connectivity and people-to-people bond, so as to bring more benefits to both our peoples, and push the China-Bangladesh relations into a better new era.” BNP’s Moyeen Khan congratulated Dilip Barua to take the initiative and said China’s BRI is important for balancing the world order. “Purely western domination cannot bring good to total population,” he said. “There needs some kind of balance in the world.” “As it [BRI] unifies the world through the process of development, the BRI in fact is a global project,” he said. “We’ll move in the sense of a competition, not conflict which has become an apparent trend in the western world.” Columnist Abul Maksud described Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina “pragmatic” for maintaining balanced relations with both India and China. CPB Presidium member Abdullah Al Kafi Ratan expressed “solidarity” of his party with this new Forum. Hasanul Haq Inu, who was the information minister of Hasina’s last cabinet, said this forum will act as a bridge between the regional and sub-regional forums. The BRI will increase connectivity, increase the tourism industry, increase economic development and trade, he said. “It’ll be a great boost for the economic development of Asia,” he said, urging all in Bangladesh irrespective of political parties to support the BRI. They also

https://defence.pk/pdf/threads/awami-league-bnp-unite-to-launch-bangladesh-china-silk-road-forum.619198/ The major political forces in Bangladesh, including the ruling Awami League, its rival BNP and leftist parties, have joined hands to launch the Bangladesh China Silk Road Forum in a bid to facilitate China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). The forum was launched at the National Press Club on Saturday and will serve as a ‘coordinating body for promoting cooperation with China and other member countries’, said its chairman Dilip Barua, also the general secretary of Bangladesh Samyabadi Dal. BNP’s standing committee member Abdul Moyeen Khan, Awami League’s advisory council member Mozaffar Hossain Paltu, JaSod’s Hasanul Haque Inu and Sharif Nurul Ambia and columnist Syed Abul Maksud are among the vice-chairmen. The Communist Party of Bangladesh and the Workers Party expressed their solidarity with the initiative during the programme and were allotted two vice-chairmen posts in the forum. Journalist Shahiduzzaman Khan of Financial Express is the member secretary of the 49-member executive board in which Dr Wahedul Islam, Bimal Biswas, Prof Delwar Hossain, and Dr Mostaq Hussain of JaSod will serve as members, among others. The full committee will be formed soon, said Inu while announcing the names of the chairman, seven vice-chairmen, one secretary general, two joint secretary generals one treasurer, publicity secretary, office secretary and 20 members. Prime Minister’s International Affairs Adviser Gowher Rizvi and Chinese Ambassador in Dhaka Zhang Zuo also attended the ceremony and lauded the move as a “timely” initiative. Bangladesh joined the BRI during Chinese President Xi Jinping’s visit to Dhaka in 2016. The initiative aims to rebuild the old Silk Road to connect China with Asia, Europe and beyond through massive infrastructural spending. However, the initiative has been the subject of controversy in many western capitals, particularly Washington, which views it as merely a means to spread Chinese influence abroad and trap countries into debt through “nontransparent” projects. India did not join the BRI, citing concerns over China’s projects with Pakistan. Some analysts say India is not comfortable with Bangladesh’s participation in the initiative. “This is the time,” Rizvi said about the new Forum, adding that the government does not see any conflict in the relations with India and China. “Our support and participation in BRI does not exclude us from participation in other initiatives such as Indo-Pacific strategy,” he said as India is one of the key partners of the strategy pursued by the United States. “We in Bangladesh do not see any conflict between the two. Both these have their own reasons and purposes. Both of them will advance our goal and prosperity,” he said. “What

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On the green light we should be north of 500p!! Mercedesman said 40-100p a share after litigation of getting costs back given no green light!

Yes it’s a no lose investment at these prices assuming we would get compensation if we were frustrated into taking the GoB to tribunal for the money spent exploring. We have probably 6-9 months left on out deal timing to make this work.

We must be getting close to the announcement of a miner. Then it’s all in the details of the deal, the inclusion in the the B&R Initiative, and the proposal to the GoB. A lot of people seem stressed at the sp. Who cares until the green light is given! That’s when the fireworks will fly. Only traders are frustrated.

I hope so lol or I’ve got it really wrong!!

Well BHP are a “large international miner” lol.

Once the City have stopped troughing they’ll want their serious profits.

Foreign ministry sources in Dhaka told This Week in Asia that Bangladesh and China will sign at least 21 agreements involving close to US$40 billion in Chinese funding for large infrastructure projects. “These projects are critical to Bangladesh’s development ambitions. So Xi’s visit is very important. Wherever he goes, he offers a big package, and it won’t be any different this time,” said Ambassdor Munshi Faiz Ahmad, chairman of the government-backed think tank, the Bangladesh Institute of International & Strategic Studies.

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They’ll need a north west power hub. Electricity doesn’t travel that far too well due to resistance.

So they can do it. https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.thedailystar.net/city/news/30000-families-affected-report-1742311%3famp

Agreed.

https://www.ottawalife.com/article/8-big-belt-and-road-initiative-projects?c=86 “While other keystone projects in Bangladesh include a US$1.56 billion power plant near the port of Payra, in southern Bangladesh. This plant is part of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina government’s plan to implement a series of coal-fired power projects to produce 40,000 MW electricity by 2030. Through this Chinese consortium between China National Machinery Import and Export Corporation (CMC) and Bangladesh’s North-West Power Generation Co (NWPGC), Payra is set to be Bangladesh’s first eco-friendly power plant, as this station will use an ultramodern clean coal technology.”

So in other words, a deal with the large international miner is still in advanced stages. Good.

What has been tweeted. Can’t load it.

To be fair, it’s been time for a rerate for a long time!! Once the City have stopped troughing of course! ;-D

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