Author: Chandan Nandy

After cancelling a planned visit to China in late June, Bangladesh’s Army chief, General Waker-uz-Zaman, is now set for a three-day official trip to Beijing from August 22 to 25. The visit, to be closely monitored by the US State Department and the American security establishment, comes at a time when the Bangladesh Army is expected to receive significant logistical supplies that will, according to military sources, be quietly passed to the Arakan Army in Myanmar’s Rakhine State. US agencies have said almost nothing that would suggest that preparations are underway to extend this clandestine help to the Arakan Army,…