Editor,
The year 2006, an autobiography Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty and a stalwart to the poor, a modern Robinhood arrived to usher a global microcredit movement, I did visit Sreemangal a place often dubbed as the ‘tea capital’ because of the immense estate which covers the length and breadth teeming with multiculturalism, Muhammad Yunus is a household name but this same saviour made an immature statement towards Northeast India saying that being landlocked Bangladesh can be the accessible point for trade and commerce.
Yunus’ recent visit to Beijing, the Teesta River Comprehensive Management and Restoration Project (TRCMRP) was the centrepiece of the discussion amongst 2.1 USD billion in loans, investments. The Chinese have always used unrestricted warfare in various domains to alter the international political landscape, in a news item at The Economic Times, dated March 6, 2025 (Paresh Baruah, exiled chief of ULFA, allegedly relocates to China) and that to Xishuangbanna Dai region of Yunnan from Ruili, near the Arunachal Pradesh-Myanmar border.
According to an issue brief in January 2024 from the Observer Research Foundation titled ‘The Digital Silk Road in the Indo-Pacific: Mapping China’s Vision for Global Tech Expansion’ by Sameer Patil and Prithvi Gupta it gives a 360 degree view of how the dragon’s breath has reached from companies, undersea cables and surveillance tools. Recent events highlight the importance of prioritizing India’s national security and working with our neighbours. This requires strong political will.
Christopher Gatphoh
Laitkor Rngi
Shillong-10
