Foreign Relations By Country

"Cutting through this foreign policy jargon, what has actually happened has been a clear shift in Bangladesh’s international alignment since the coup against Mujib. The Mujib government’s orientation internationally was politically identified with India under Indira Gandhi’s premiership and with the Soviet Union. This alignment dated from the contingencies of the 1971 war and Kissinger’s tilt towards Pakistan. Today the new military regime’s orientation in Dacca is clearly towards the United States, the Islamic bloc as represented by America’s ally Saudi Arabia, and towards China to a degree similar to that of Ayub Khan’s regime in Pakistan during the 1960s, when Pakistan’s relations with Peking were utilized as a counterforce to New Delhi."