Bhumitra Chakma

An ethno-conflict erupted in the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) of Bangladesh in 1975 which lasted for more than two decades. It came to a formal end when the Bangladesh government...

• Bhumitra Chakma |
• November-December 2025 |
• Strategic Analysis

This article explains the Sino-Indian geo-economic competition in Bangladesh in the wake of the former’s launching of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) in 2013. Beijing intends to fund various...

• Bhumitra Chakma |
• May 2019 |
• Strategic Analysis

Chinese President Xi Jinping initially proposed to build an ‘economic belt’ and a ‘21st-century Maritime Silk Road’ in 2013 which were formalised as the ‘Belt and Road Initiative’ (BRI) in...

• Bhumitra Chakma |
• May 2019 |
• Strategic Analysis