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<title>Counterpoint &#45; Ahamed Jobayer</title>
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<title>The Never&#45;Ending Story</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ Nine years ago, the Rohingya crossed into Bangladesh expecting to stay for a season. They are still there. The speeches have changed hands three times, but the camps have not moved. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2026 11:33:32 +0600</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Ahamed Jobayer</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Rohingya</media:keywords>
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<title>Looking at the Saudi Naval Coalition from Bangladesh</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ This dependence cuts both ways. If the Saudi market were to close for any reason, the impact on Bangladesh&#039;s employment would be significant, particularly since other major markets such as Oman, the UAE, Bahrain, and Malaysia have not reopened at scale. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 09 Aug 2026 13:13:42 +0600</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Ahamed Jobayer</dc:creator>
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<title>Can We be an Alternative to the Strait of Malacca?</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ There is the India-shaped hole in the map. By excluding New Delhi, Beijing has made the corridor more diplomatically tractable, but it has also converted an economic connectivity project into a more explicit piece of the China-India strategic contest in the Bay of Bengal. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 12:00:05 +0600</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Ahamed Jobayer</dc:creator>
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<title>The Curious History of the China Corridor</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ This history matters for one simple reason -- the corridor China proposed in Beijing in June to the Bangladeshi Prime Minister is the same idea, with the same starting point in Kunming, with the same logic, but without India. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2026 12:08:13 +0600</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Ahamed Jobayer</dc:creator>
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<title>The History of Green Politics</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ What started as a protest became politics. What was once dismissed as extreme is now the subject of international summits. The questions Green activists were asking 50 years ago -- how do we live within the limits of this planet, and who pays when we do not -- are still the most important questions today. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2026 13:12:53 +0600</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Ahamed Jobayer</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>USA, UK, Green politics</media:keywords>
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<title>Malaysia First, Then China</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ This is not a government choosing China over India, or East Asia over the West. Rather, Dhaka is trying to keep every door open for as long as the money keeps coming in and as long as no single lender or ally claims it exclusively. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2026 11:14:30 +0600</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Ahamed Jobayer</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Tarique Rahman, China, Malaysia</media:keywords>
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