[🇧🇩] Chicken Neck/Siliguri Corridor

[Nibba]

I have edited your post minus the troll-bait comment you made.

Before you comment on a matter, like you did here - it is important to educate yourself.

And have the right attitude to learn from people more aware of the subject, otherwise you are wasting your time.

If you don't have the frame of mind to learn - why post at all?

$22 Billion trade deficit with China is not the point (which is mostly capital equipment and raw material for re-export).
The amount of existing (and expected) Chinese industrial value-addition investments in Bangladesh is huge (far greater than the annual $24 Billion we import from China) compared to what Indians will ever want to invest in Bangladesh. China is in a different league compared to India.

The Chinese are our development partners with most mega projects (bridges, power stations, roadways, railways) going to Chinese State-controlled concerns and Chinese banks financing them. The quality of these projects is high, far higher than equivalent projects attempted in India. Go to the Bangladesh infrastructure threads and take a gander sometime.

Indians do not have the capability to participate in these mega projects evidenced by the fact that they have never tried.

For consolation purposes, Hasina had to award a few small ones to Indian companies and the sub-par qualities of these smaller projects (and associated delays) is evidence that Indians need far more experience in this area.

So us preferring the Chinese to be our development partner (instead of India) is logical. India in the same situation would do the same.

All these words a few days after Hasina went to china and was sent back a day early with a 100 million dollars LMAO

Get used to it. It’s not 2010. They’ve really pulled back on their external investments everywhere. It hasn’t panned out for the most part. BRI is largely loss making.

India isn’t looking to replace china. We don’t invest in loss making dogshit infrastructure lol.

We will build that connectivity however. and you will do nothing about it.

 

[Bilal9]

We don’t invest in loss making dogshit infrastructure lol.

It's OK buddy, no one is asking you to. It's clear you are trolling.

I will temporarily lock this thread as we've made our points.

 

[Saif]

The so called Chicken Neck is a myth which is widely promoted by online BD bloggers with no military expertise or undereducated junior BD military officers. This so called Chicken neck has no military significance at the strategic, tactical and operational level in the 21st century military doctrine . It is a full waste of time to even discuss this with civilians. It could be an issue probably some five hundred years ago but not in modern time.

Unfortunately the Indians don't share your views on the Chicken Neck issue. India considers the Chicken Neck as its only strategic disadvantage which could lead to its disintegration under Chinese pressure. That's why the Indians want to use Bangladesh as an alternative route to Chicken's Neck. The opposition political parties in Bangladesh have also expressed their concerns about granting rail transit to India. The Chicken's Neck has military significance at the strategic, tactical, and operational level. That's why the Indian army has stationed its XXXIII Corps at Siliguri of West Bengal. The XXXIII Corps comprises of three Mountain Divisions namely 17 Mountain Division, 20 Mountain Division, and 27 Mountain Division.

New rail lines for Northeast via Bangladesh to bypass 'Chicken's Neck' | Kolkata News - Times of India

India plans to develop an alternative railway network through Bangladesh, leveraging the India-Bangladesh Trade Agreement of 1980. The initiative aims

timesofindia.indiatimes.com

After 55 years, India will inaugurate a new railway line with Bangladesh to save its ‘Chicken’s Neck’ from China | Business Insider India

India is saving its ‘Chicken’s Neck’ from China as it inaugurates a new railway line with Bangladesh after 55 years.

www.businessinsider.in

Bangladesh must not give India train transit

During Sheikh Hasinas recent Delhi visit, a significant development took place that might throw Bangladeshs

www.themirrorasia.net

 

[Mustafa.Iq]

If a war breaks out between China and India. The Siliguri Corridor is a huge weakness.

China can cut off Eastern India from the rest of India.

 

[Saif]

If a war breaks out between China and India. The Siliguri Corridor is a huge weakness.

China can cut off Eastern India from the rest of India.

You are quite right in your observation, brother🙂

 

[Vikings]

If a war breaks out between China and India. The Siliguri Corridor is a huge weakness.

China can cut off Eastern India from the rest of India.

Does China have direct access to the corridor?

 

[Bilal9]

Does China have direct access to the corridor?

They have border access to Sikkim, which (once breached) is less than 170 KM from the entire Siliguri Corridor.

It's only a question of time before they decide to breach it, a low-hanging fruit strategically (so to speak)..

Here are the images showing the distances involved in KM.

Map with Sikkim not shown as a state, it is in between Bhutan and Nepal and bordering China (Tibet) in the North.

 

[Saif]

Does China have direct access to the corridor?

The Chinese army will make a huge thrust into tiny Sikkim to access Siliguri Corridor to separate North-East from the rest of India. Siliguri Corridor is the only strategic vulnerability of India which could bring about its disintegration. Hope that answers your question.

 

[Saif]

Let's see what Pinaki Bhattacharya has to say about Siliguri Corridor.

 

[Vikings]

They have border access to Sikkim, which (once breached) is less than 170 KM from the entire Siliguri Corridor.

It's only a question of time before they decide to breach it, a low-hanging fruit strategically (so to speak)..

Here are the images showing the distances involved in KM.

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Map with Sikkim not shown as a state, it is in between Bhutan and Nepal and bordering China (Tibet) in the North.
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The Chinese army will make a huge thrust into tiny Sikkim to access Siliguri Corridor to separate North-East from the rest of India. Siliguri Corridor is the only strategic vulnerability of India which could bring about its disintegration. Hope that answers your question.

Thanks both of you brothers! But I would like to know the take of @Old School bhai , so that others can learn more ( actually learn the reality) !

 

[Old School]

Thanks both of you brothers! But I would like to know the take of @Old School bhai , so that others can learn more!

Thank you for making me a teacher ! lol. I will not reply until I see someone with some Pakistani/ Chinese/ Indian government work background is participating in these sort of threads.

 

[Vikings]

Thank you for making me a teacher ! lol. I will not reply until I see someone with some Pakistani/ Chinese/ Indian government work background is participating in these sort of threads.

@Old School bhai , of course you are a good teacher ( but for passionate students , who like to learn . People who always love arguments, can never learn anything from you, I know it too!) and I know it very well ; although I'm a very common civilian , but I sometimes can use my tiny brian ( partially though, not fully because I'm amateur in this case) , and most of time don't see the world and it's politics and regional politics as black and white.

So I honor your decision not to comment unless officials participating in such discussion.

I understand that learning surgery isn't possible without practical experience , and performing surgery requires lots of professional skills and dedication.

Military strategy is like the same , or perhaps more rigorous; other than professional experience it's very much understandable for me that others will have hard time understanding, or maybe even won't understand at all!

Other than professionals most people ( users ) not only can't wrap their head on such thing, but also will end up baiting flame because of their almost zero experience.

But all people should realise that the world isn't black and white as they love to think.


If common people can understand surgery or Military strategy , then why do we need surgeons to perform surgery and need Military strategist to make plans?

So yes again I honor your decision not to discuss on this matter on a public forum , unless professional Military strategists join and engage in such discussions.

Thanks again for your straightforwardness ! Best regards.

 

[Saif]

Nepal wants chicken neck to connect to Bangladesh. They call it land swapping. India rejects.

 

[Bilal9]

Nepal wants chicken neck to connect to Bangladesh. They call it land swapping. India rejects.

There was no doubt that India would ever agree though....Nepal's predicament is that although they are coreligionist Hindus just like majority of Indians and although Nepalese have free visaless travel and working rights in India, Indians have just as much suspicion for Nepalese foreign policy, as they do for that of Bangladeshis. Plenty of trust deficit.

 

[Saif]

There was no doubt that India would ever agree though....Nepal's predicament is that although they are coreligionist Hindus just like majority of Indians and although Nepalese have free visaless travel and working rights in India, Indians have just as much suspicion for Nepalese foreign policy, as they do for that of Bangladeshis. Plenty of trust deficit.

India would never let Nepal grow as it has good relation with China. We want Nepal to use our sea ports but for that to happen Nepal needs to get transit right from India which is not going to happen anytime soon.