{"id":304236,"date":"2017-04-18T11:50:30","date_gmt":"2017-04-18T10:50:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/india-strengthens-defence-ties-with-bangladesh\/"},"modified":"2017-04-18T11:50:30","modified_gmt":"2017-04-18T10:50:30","slug":"india-strengthens-defence-ties-with-bangladesh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/india-strengthens-defence-ties-with-bangladesh\/","title":{"rendered":"India strengthens defence ties with Bangladesh"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3 class=\"nomargin\">\u00a0<\/h3>\n<h2>India strengthens defence ties with Bangladesh<\/h2>\n<h5>\n<p>    By<br \/>\n    Sarath Kumara<br \/>\n    <br \/>18 April 2017<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<p>Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina concluded a four-day trip to India last week\u2014her first visit since 2010\u2014during which she signed a range of defence and other agreements to strengthen relations between the two countries. India, backed by the US, is keen to undermine its regional rival China\u2019s growing influence in Bangladesh.<\/p>\n<p>Last June, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited Dhaka and signed 22 agreements, including on maritime security and to establish special economic zones in Bangladesh. Later in the year Indian Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar travelled to Bangladesh, accompanied India\u2019s coast guard chief and the vice-chiefs of the army, air force and navy. Parrikar discussed the finalisation of \u201ca new defence cooperation framework\u201d with Bangladesh.<\/p>\n<p>Hasina held discussions last week with Modi on defence, regional security and cooperation in \u201ccombating international terrorism.\u201d Officials from Bangladesh and India signed a range of agreements, including defence, cyber security, information technology, connectivity, energy and human resource development, and a civil nuclear cooperation pact.<\/p>\n<p>New Delhi offered Dhaka a $US4.5 billion concessionary line of credit for development projects in Bangladesh. Modi declared that the line of credit \u201cbrings our resources allocation to Bangladesh to more than $8 billion over the past six years.\u201d This finance, however, is small compared the $30 billion in investment promised during President Xi Jinping\u2019s visit to Bangladesh last October. Beijing is concerned about Washington\u2019s efforts to enlist India as a \u201cfrontline\u201d state in its military encirclement of China. Last November in Tokyo Modi signed a defence agreement&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsws.org\/en\/articles\/2017\/04\/18\/bang-a18.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 India strengthens defence ties with Bangladesh By Sarath Kumara 18 April 2017 Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina concluded a four-day trip to India last week\u2014her first visit since 2010\u2014during which she signed a range of defence and other agreements to strengthen relations between the two countries. India, backed by the US, is keen to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2526,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-304236","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2526"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=304236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304236\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}