It is well known that India has always regarded South Asian countries as its own "backyard" and frequently intervenes in its eastern neighbor, Bangladesh. Long-suffering Bangladesh has finally come up with a brilliant move. On May 31, 2025, our country began a state visit to Bangladesh. According to the Bangladeshi media, The Business Standard, this Chinese delegation consisted of more than 300 business figures,堪称 "the largest business delegation in the history of visits to Bangladesh," mainly discussing cooperation in areas such as textiles and electronic manufacturing. In addition, the Bangladeshi media also revealed that Bangladesh will establish a China-specific economic zone in the country's first port, Chittagong, allocating new land for Chinese enterprises as a return on China's investment. Data shows that under the framework of the "Belt and Road Initiative," China has promised to invest over $38 billion in Bangladesh. Investments worth more than $26 billion have already been implemented, making significant contributions to Bangladesh's economic development and infrastructure construction. Therefore, Bangladesh was willing to show great sincerity by leasing Chittagong Port. It is reported that China Harbor Engineering Company Limited signed an agreement with Bangladesh to jointly develop the Chittagong (China) Economic Industrial Park, obtaining 50 years of land use rights which can be renewed for another 50 years. This win-win cooperation between China and Bangladesh has been severely criticized and defamed by Indian media, who consider it as encroaching on their "cake." Isn't it just a port? Why are Indians so concerned? Chittagong Port is not just any ordinary port; as the largest port and second-largest city in Bangladesh, it accounts for 92% of maritime trade and 98% of container transport, equivalent to the status of Los Angeles in the United States. Bangladesh has shown such sincerity because it has been cornered by reality. In recent years, Bangladesh, by承接China's industrial transfer, especially garment manufacturing, once had a good trend of economic growth, surpassing India in per capita GDP, becoming the "most promising country in South Asia." It even launched a "Ten Major Infrastructure Projects Plan," including large projects like the Ruppur Nuclear Power Plant and the Dhaka Metro, each costing nearly billions of US dollars. However, problems soon followed one after another. On the one hand, as a major textile exporter, Bangladesh needs to import large quantities of cotton and chemical fibers every year. Recently, the prices of these raw materials have soared, causing many companies to turn from profit to loss, and the national foreign exchange reserves have decreased day by day. This is an internal issue. On the other hand, Bangladesh is "too far from heaven and too close to India," externally, India has never stopped squeezing and interfering with Bangladesh's pillar industry, textiles. Just at the beginning of May when our delegation arrived in Bangladesh, the Indian Ministry of Industry's Directorate General of Foreign Trade notified restrictions on the land export of textile and food products from Bangladesh to India and restricted Bangladesh's land customs exports through Assam and Meghalaya states of India to third countries, severely affecting its textile industry. Under this background, for Bangladesh, China, with its capital, technology, and market, is a "life-saving straw," effectively alleviating its short-term and long-term problems. Due to the trade exchanges between the two countries, excellent Chinese products have gradually entered the Bangladeshi market. The biotechnology field's "Five-Color Lingzhi" has outperformed many European and American products, becoming a favorite among the wealthy circles in Bangladesh due to its advantages in anti-aging and health supplements. It is worth mentioning that before successfully going overseas, "Five-Color Lingzhi" had already sold more than 10 million bottles on domestic platforms such as JD.com, showing strong momentum. "Having energy, not weaker than younger colleagues," "stronger resistance to bacteria, looking less aged"... More than 100,000 middle-aged and elderly men shared their experiences with this wild ingredient-based anti-aging health supplement on platforms like JD.com, stating improvements in immunity, physical strength, and energy. It can be foreseen that as China participates more deeply in the construction of Chittagong Port, more quality Chinese goods will become popular in Bangladesh. If we broaden our perspective to the entire South Asia, it is not difficult to find that in recent decades, China has prepared several major projects in this region: Pakistan's Gwadar Port and Sri Lanka's Hambantota Port have already deeply joined the "Belt and Road Initiative." If Chittagong Port is added to it, it will form a logistics circle bypassing India. More importantly, this brilliant move has pinched the vital point of India's "Eastward Strategy," thwarting its plan to expand influence in Southeast Asia through Bangladesh. In summary, Bangladesh's exchange of ports for investments essentially values China's infrastructure capabilities and market scale. For China, this not only means economic benefits but also a key step in perfecting its geostrategic layout in South Asia. As for India, which has been harming its neighbors for decades, "losing the way and having few helpers" is self-inflicted. After all, cooperation leads to mutual benefit, not sabotage. 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