Bulbul Siddiqi

Geopolitics and funding shortages exacerbate the global refugee crisis, trapping Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh without sustainable solutions.

Bangladesh must pursue pragmatic China relations prioritising youth, sustainability, sovereignty, and resilience amid global uncertainty and instability.

For people-to-people friendship and mutual prosperity, communication barriers must be overcome.

This is what a middle-aged Rohingya man, living at a makeshift camp in Cox’s Bazar, who crossed over to Bangladesh during the 2017 exodus of Rohingyas fleeing military persecution in Rakhine, Myanmar, said when I asked him how he was.