@Afif ,
@Raj-Hindustani @Joe Shearer @Nilgiri
Possible reasons for India to be nervous if the US is indeed provided a foothold against China in BD?
Encroachment?
Balance altering?
Frenemy surveillance?
USA base in Bangladesh will lead to destabilisation of Bangladesh similar to what happened in Pakistan. India will simply fence off Bangladesh and cut trade ties. Bangladesh has no suppliers without India as it has only 2 neighbours - Myanmar & India. It has sea linkage but it can't afford expensive transport costs for medicines, agriculture products, cotton etc.
China will be unhappy and won't aid BD. USA can't give any help either as it is in debt and does not have money to spare. USA may be able to print dollars but there is a limit on how much foreign countries will accept the dollars. If USA overprints dollars, China and other foreign countries will not accept the additional debt which will result in unstable external situation.
So, giving base to USA will result in ruining of Bangladeshi economy. The only justification for BD to give base to USA will be to do a suicidal move to spite India.
They gave a rail corridor, which India can use in the event of war with China to avoid relying on Chicken neck corridor.
Increased bi lateral military training.
And also recently ordered vehicles recently.
Just because they haven't let an Indian base in Bangladeshi soil, doesn't mean they have not done anything. They know very well a drastic move will face serious resistance, that's why they have introduced little changes over time.
Hasina ensured that India gets nothing from BD. The vehicles ordered were low tech transportation ones, not high end radar, air defence, tank or any offensive ones. The rail corridor is not functional and never built. It was always just a memorandum on paper. That proposal was made by India for decades & Bangladesh has always been delaying or slowing it. If Hasina really wanted to favour India, she would have accepted the railway a decade back but she didn't.
In my opinion, it will be easier to deal with a hostile Bangladesh government than pretentiously friendly Hasina who behaves friendly but never does anything friendly. Hostile governments can be coerced into doing what India wants by threatening cutting supply of cotton, vegetables, medicines etc as India genuinely has the upper hand and is not relying on Hasina's goodwill
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