The long awaited Indo-Pacific outlook of Bangladesh: What lies ahead?
The Government of Bangladesh (GoB) formally announced its Indo-Pacific Outlook prior to the Honourable Prime Minister's recent high-profile visit to Japan, the US, and the UK. As a country of the Indo-pacific region, articulating a strategy or a doctrine on external engagement was long overdue. The region has become a hotspot for geostrategic, geopolitical, and geo-economic competition. The global and regional powers' interests have been revolving around this region. Therefore, Bangladesh has been at the centre of a geopolitical struggle among these powers, and the absence of the country's stated interests provided the scope for misinterpretation. Bangladesh has so far been maintaining a flexible stance reflecting its foreign policy dictum 'Friendship to all, malice toward none'. Economic diplomacy lies at the heart of Bangladesh's external engagement priorities, and the country is expected to maintain a certain level of flexibility in exploring the available options. The latest Indo-Pacific Outlook formalizes this policy and therefore does not denote a comprehensive strategy for external engagement in the Indo-Pacific region. It has been deliberately articulated as an outlook to preserve the sanctity of Bangladesh's foreign policy in venturing through a complex geopolitical situation.
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