[🇧🇩] Bangladesh-China-Pakistan---A Trilateral Strategic Alliance.

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Date of Event: Jun 22, 2025

Source : https://en.prothomalo.com/bangladesh/kzo6s1oble Short Summary: Trilateral strategic alliance to contain India.

Kunming summit
Bangladesh, Pakistan, China agree to advance trilateral cooperation

Diplomatic Correspondent Dhaka
Published: 21 Jun 2025, 22: 47

Acting Foreign Secretary Ruhul Alam Siddique, Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Sun Weidong and Pakistani Additional Secretary Imran Ahmed Siddiqui attended a trilateral summit in Kunming Collected

Bangladesh, Pakistan and China agreed to advance trilateral cooperation based on the principles of good-neighbourliness, equality and mutual trust, openness and inclusiveness, common development, and win-win cooperation.

The development came at a meeting of China-Pakistan-Bangladesh trilateral vice foreign minister/foreign secretary meeting was held in Kunming, Yunnan province of China.

Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Sun Weidong, Bangladeshi Acting Foreign Secretary Ruhul Alam Siddique and Pakistani Additional Secretary (Asia Pacific) Imran Ahmed Siddiqui attended the meeting on 19 June, says a joint statement.

Pakistani Foreign Secretary Amna Baloch participated in the first phase of the meeting via video link.

China-Bangladesh-Pakistan trilateral cooperation focuses on promoting economic development and improving people’s livelihoods.

The three sides agreed to explore and implement cooperation projects in such areas as industry, trade, maritime affairs, water resources, climate change, agriculture, human resources, think tanks, health, education, culture, and youth.

The three sides will establish a working group to follow up and implement the understandings reached during the meeting. The three sides emphasised that China-Bangladesh-Pakistan cooperation adheres to true multilateralism and open regionalism, not directed at any third party.

Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Sun Weidong stated that the Chinese government is committed to building a community with a shared future with neighboring countries. Bangladesh and Pakistan are both good neighbors, good friends, and good partners of China, and important partners in high quality Belt and Road cooperation.

As significant members of the Global South and key countries in the region, all three countries face the mission of national revitalisation and modernisation, and all require a peaceful and stable environmentSun Weidong added.

He said cooperation among China, Pakistan and Bangladesh aligns with the common interests of the three peoples, and can contribute to regional peace, stability, development and prosperity.

The three sides exchanged views extensively on China-Pakistan-Bangladesh trilateral cooperation. The three sides agreed to advance trilateral cooperation based on the principles of good-neighborliness, equality and mutual trust, openness and inclusiveness, common development, and win-win cooperation.

China-Bangladesh-Pakistan trilateral cooperation focuses on promoting economic development and improving people’s livelihoods. The three sides agreed to explore and implement cooperation projects in such areas as industry, trade, maritime affairs, water resources, climate change, agriculture, human resources, think tanks, health, education, culture, and youth.

The three sides will establish a working group to follow up and implement the understandings reached during the meeting. The three sides emphasized that China-Bangladesh-Pakistan cooperation adheres to true multilateralism and open regionalism, not directed at any third party.

Meanwhile, Pakistan Foreign Ministry in its statement said Amna Baluch joined the meeting’s first session via video link and praised China for taking the initiative of the trilateral cooperation.

She highlighted the “upward trajectory of bilateral ties” and “conveyed Pakistan’s readiness to work with the two nations to enhance ties in trade and investment, agriculture, digital economy, environment protection, marine sciences, green infrastructure, culture, education and people-to-people exchanges.

In Kunming, Sun Weidong also called on Haji Mawlawi Abdul Salam Hanafi, Acting Deputy Prime Minister of the interim government of Afghan, and held bilateral meetings with Ruhul Alam Siddique and Imran Ahmed Siddiqui.​

 

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Foreign adviser dismisses formation of “Dhaka-Beijing-Islamabad alliance”

Foreign adviser M Touhid Hossain on Thursday dismissed the notion of any emerging alliance among Bangladesh, China and Pakistan saying a recent meeting between the three countries was not of political nature rather an informal official level discussion.

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Foreign adviser dismisses formation of “Dhaka-Beijing-Islamabad alliance”

BSS Dhaka
Published: 26 Jun 2025, 21: 56

Foreign adviser M Touhid Hossain spoke to reporters at the foreign ministry today, Thursday.Photo: MoFA

Foreign adviser M Touhid Hossain on Thursday dismissed the notion of any emerging alliance among Bangladesh, China and Pakistan saying a recent meeting between the three countries was not of political nature rather an informal official level discussion.

“We are not forming any alliance,” he told reporters at the foreign ministry as he was asked for comments about the trilateral meeting in China’s Kunming on 19 June.

Hossain added, “It was a meeting at the official level, not at the political level”, where there was “no element of formation of any alliance”.

“If India wants to have such a meeting among Bangladesh, India and Nepal, Dhaka will remain interested to ‘do’ the meeting next day,” the adviser said adding the Dhaka-New Delhi relation currently was going through a phase of “readjustment”.

Asked if the meeting was intended to sideline India, Hossain asserted, “It is certainly not targeting a third-party (which) I can assure you”.

The foreign ministry in an earlier statement said representatives from Bangladesh, China, and Pakistan held an “informal trilateral meeting” on the sidelines of the 9th China-South Asia Exposition and the 6th China-South Asia Cooperation Forum in Kunming.

Former acting foreign secretary Md Ruhul Alam Siddique represented Dhaka in the meeting with Chinese vice foreign minister Sun Weidong, and Pakistani additional foreign secretary Imran Ahmed Siddiqui.

China and Pakistan issued separate statements on the meeting while Beijing said the three countries held “extensive discussions on trilateral cooperation” and agreed to move forward based on “good-neighborliness, mutual trust, equality, openness, inclusiveness and shared development”.

Islamabad, on the other hand, described the gathering as the “inaugural meeting of the Bangladesh-China-Pakistan trilateral mechanism”.

Asked whether Dhaka rejected such characterisations, the adviser said “there is no need to deny anything” but emphasised that it was “not anything big and not something structured”.

Hossain said that the discussions mainly focused on connectivity and related areas, noting, “If there is any further progress, you will know that (but) there is not much scope to speculate”.

Hossain further said Dhaka did not have reservation in joining any such meeting like the Kunming one with other countries citing a hypothetical example involving India.

“If India wants to have such a meeting among Bangladesh, India and Nepal, Dhaka will remain interested to ‘do’ the meeting next day,” the adviser said adding the Dhaka-New Delhi relation currently was going through a phase of “readjustment”.

“The relationship with India is now at a stage of ‘readjustment’ and there is no lack of goodwill from Dhaka’s side to that end,” he said.

“Look, let us acknowledge the truth. The level of deep relationship between India and the previous government had and the kind of relationship India had established, the current relationship with us is not like that one,” he said as asked what he meant by readjustment.

During the Kunming meeting, the three sides discussed prospects for trilateral cooperation in key sectors such as infrastructure, connectivity, trade, investment, healthcare, agriculture, maritime affairs, ICT, disaster preparedness, and climate change.

According to Dhaka, the delegations agreed to pursue collaboration based on openness, inclusivity, good neighbourliness, and a win-win approach.​