The ‘Triangle of Death’: China’s Threat and India’s Plan to Counter it by Strengthening Ties with Bangladesh and Sri Lanka
Chittagong in Bangladesh, Hambantota in Sri Lanka, and Gwadar in Pakistan are the three Chinese-run ports in South Asia, and they form a "triangle of death" around India.
By offering energy and military hardware agreements, New Delhi hopes to pull Dhaka and Colombo back into its camp and preserve strategic control in its immediate neighborhood.
India is building a port in Sri Lanka and has offered to maintain Bangladesh's Russian military gear in exchange for better transportation links and power purchase agreements. The Bangladesh Air Force is reportedly more interested in European fighter planes than in the Indian indigenous Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) Tejas for its fleet modernization efforts.
Bangladesh's Power Struggle
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