With 20.2 percent of its total loans in default by the end of last year, Bangladesh had the weakest banking system in Asia. Despite reforms, it will take time to recover.
This world is being restructured and redrawn by one man, and what’s his power? It’s not his formidable military. It’s trade. With China, it turned on him.
We should be grateful for small mercies. 2. Once a retaliatory cycle starts, whether it is shelling across the LoC – five members of a family were killed yesterday, two injured – or this harassment of diplomats, in contravention of diplomatic courtesies that predate the Vienna Convention by centuries, it is very difficult to decide what was provocation, what is retaliation. As both nations head into the uncertainty of federal elections, no major breakthrough is possible. However, it should be possible to step back from this wholly avoidable dismantling of diplomatic protocol.
We should be grateful for small mercies. 2. Once a retaliatory cycle starts, whether it is shelling across the LoC – five members of a family were killed yesterday, two injured – or this harassment of diplomats, in contravention of diplomatic courtesies that predate the Vienna Convention by centuries, it is very difficult to decide what was provocation, what is retaliation. As both nations head into the uncertainty of federal elections, no major breakthrough is possible. However, it should be possible to step back from this wholly avoidable dismantling of diplomatic protocol.