Abstract
Bangladesh remains a strategic partner of China in the Belt & Road Initiative (BRI). These two countries have been involved in closer economic and security cooperation over the last few decades, whereas BRI provides a new impetus to amplify their existing bilateral relationship. Bangladesh’s physical location is an integral part of BCIM overland connectivity, whereas the country’s sea area falls into the Maritime Silk Route of BRI. In this regard, Chinese President Xi Jinping’s visit to Dhaka in October 2016 and Bangladesh’s Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s visit to Beijing in June 2019 brought about a series of bilateral agreements on diverse areas associated to BRI, including the mega projects of the construction of Padma Bridge and the multi-lane road tunnel under the river Karnaphuli in Bangladesh. Hence, the grand initiative of BRI provides a key opportunity for both China and Bangladesh to jointly pursue the course of their individual national developments. In such a context, this study aims to analyze the contemporary developments of China-Bangladesh bilateral relationship under BRI in the light of neo-liberal theory of international relations. By applying neo-liberal ideas of interstate cooperation, the study reveals how BRI has been playing.
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