From Cox’s Bazar to the Golden Triangle: The New Great Game in Southeast Asia

From Cox’s Bazar to the Golden Triangle: The New Great Game in Southeast Asia

We’ve talked before about how Bangladesh has often played the role of a proxy for Pakistan — a launchpad for pressure on India’s vulnerable Siliguri Corridor, or the ‘chicken neck’ that connects the Northeast to the rest of the country. But there’s a new twist brewing in the region. The Cox’s Bazar–Rakhine Corridor, backed by the UN and framed as a humanitarian effort to support Myanmar’s Rakhine State, might be something much bigger. Behind the…