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Jun
Beijing (Rajeev Sharma): China has officially backed Bangladesh’s participation in the BRICS alliance and endorsed its application to become a dialogue partner of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, while simultaneously reaffirming support for the controversial Teesta River development project. The announcements were formalized in a comprehensive joint communiqué issued following Bangladesh Prime Minister Tarique Rahman’s high-profile five-day state visit to Beijing, where he held extensive bilateral discussions with President Xi Jinping and Premier Li Qiang. Amid simmering geopolitical anxieties in New Delhi regarding Beijing's expanding footprint in the subcontinent, Chinese officials asserted that the deepening bilateral cooperation is strictly a livelihood…