Explainer: Hedging, not choosing, in the Bay of Bengal

MOL ship at Payra Port
A MOL container ship at Payra Port in Bangladesh / Source: Payra Sea Port, Bangladesh (Facebook Page)

A US$1bn drydock proposal at Matarbari pairs an Australian financier with a Chinese state contractor complicating the Western-versus-China reading of Bangladesh’s port strategy and pointing toward a bid for maritime-industrial capability.

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