Mustafa Kamal Rusho, a retired Brigadier General, works with the Osmani Centre for Peace and Security Studies.
The ultimate test should be simple: Does membership enhance Bangladesh's security, economic interests and diplomatic leverage while preserving its freedom to make independent decisions? If the answer is yes, the pact deserves serious consideration. If it threatens strategic autonomy, caution should prevail.
The defining question is no longer whether China has become a global power, but whether its model of development and statecraft will shape the rules of the international order in the decades ahead.
History has placed South Asia and the Indian Ocean Region at the centre of 21st-century global transformation. The region's future lies not in choosing between competing powers but in pursuing inclusive modernization, strengthening regional partnerships and leveraging the unique strengths of individual nations
A more self-reliant Europe could also stimulate greater defence-industrial cooperation, increased arms exports, and new opportunities for technological and industrial partnerships with smaller states. It may ultimately contribute to a more multipolar international security environment in which European powers exercise greater strategic influence.
For the first time in decades, the United States risks strategic isolation within its own alliance network. If the United States is perceived as an unreliable negotiating partner, future mediation efforts -- both in the Middle East and beyond -- may suffer.
The question now is not only how America will wield its power, but how the rest of the world will respond to a superpower increasingly guided by transactional interests rather than shared norms.
In Ukraine, time is measured in survival. In Moscow, it is measured in leverage. In the West, it is increasingly measured in patience. And therein lies the most dangerous imbalance of all.
Without accountability, restraint, and a genuine recommitment to Palestinian sovereignty, the truce will remain a mirage -- and peace a far cry
Across Nepal, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, and far beyond, the message is clear: no one is above accountability. Corruption carries a heavy cost. Leaders who imagine a country belongs to a privileged circle will find themselves confronted by a generation unwilling to be silenced.