The forced selling by the US and the EU will shrink Bangladesh’s capacity to spend on more urgent needs, including tackling climate change and climate adaptation.

German imports and exports to the world's largest economy totalled around 127 billion euros ($139 billion) from January to June, while for China the figure was 122 billion euros, according to Reuters' calculations based on the data

Globalisation and the international trade system have many critics these days. Some say that trade does more harm than good, is bad for the environment, lacks resilience, is not transparent, and doesn’t include enough people.