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Bangladesh’s delegation started 22 political leaders, civil society activists, academics and journalists for a 10 -day visit to China.

The BBC authorized leader will have confirmed talks with Chinese government officials and senior members of the ruling Communist Party.

Analysts say China is making initiatives while diplomatic tensions between Bangladesh and India are raising a set of issues.

This includes the leader of Bangladesh, Sheikh Hasina, who live in exile in India. Dhaka requested her delivery, but Delhi refused.

“It is basically a popular visit, which started in Beijing,” Abdel -Minin Khan, a senior National Party official, BNP, who leads the delegation in Beijing, told the BBC.

“It is unique because this time China has called a team representing different groups in Bangladesh.”

Many members of the delegation are from BNP and its allies. BNP, headed by former Prime Minister Bejoom Khaled Dia, is one of the main parties in Bangladesh, along with the Awami League led by Hasina.

The delegation also includes many representatives of the movement of students who started the collective uprising against Al -Hasinah, which eventually overthrew the Prime Minister in August last year.

A temporary government, led by Nobel Prize winner Mohamed Yunus is currently responsible.

He urged India to restore Haseema to confront crimes against humanity and money laundering, among other allegations. The United Nations says that the Hasinah government campaign against the demonstrators during the uprising About 1,400 people were killed.

India has not yet shown any sign of the delivery of Hasina, which denies the charges.

Delhi and Daaka maintained close relationships during Mrs. Hasina’s rule for 15 years, whose critics were widely seen as supporters of India. While maintaining close relationships with Delhi, her balance with her relationship with Beijing.

After the fall of Hasinah, Beijing climbed its interaction with the leaders of Bangladeshi, activists and two delegations, including from the Islamic parties.

This week’s visit is following a meeting between the foreign government’s foreign policy consultant in Bangladesh, the guidance of Hussein and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi in Beijing in January.

It also represents the second time that BNP officials have visited China in recent months, after Beijing hosted the BNP delegation late last year.

Analysts say that the political vacuum and the absence of the influence of India are trying to increase its foothold in Bangladesh, a country with about 170 million people.

China is the largest commercial partner in Bangladesh with a bilateral trade of about 24 billion dollars (19 billion pounds) – the vast majority of those Chinese exports consist of South Asia.

The Bangladesh Army relies heavily on Chinese equipment and ammunition with more than 70 % of the supplies coming from China.

Compared to Beijing’s initiatives, India has had very limited interactions with the interim government and political leaders in Bangladesh in the past six months.

BNP held a protest in December on the pretext of India’s intervention in the internal issues of Bangladesh by hosting Hasina. Some advisers to the interim government also criticized Delhi on the same case.

This criticism sparked a sharp reaction from Delhi.

Indian Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar said last week It is up to Bangladesh to decide on “any kind of relationship they want with us.”

He described India’s criticism by officials and politicians Bangladesh as “very ridiculous.”

Some argue that this increasingly tense discourse between Dhaka and Delhi can push Bangladesh towards China.

The recent events indicate that Bangladesh joined his colleagues in South Asian countries, Sri Lanka, the Maldives and Nepal is a goal for both Delhi and Beijing, as the great gloves were competing for the effect.

“I don’t think India should consider that the Indian subcontinent is under Delhi’s influence. This position will suffer,” said Chinese analyst Zhou Bou, a senior fellow at the University of Tsinghwa in Beijing.