During his four-day trip to China, Bangladesh’s Chief Advisor Muhammad Yunus said Northeast India is “landlocked”, with “no way to reach out to the ocean”.
Batting for an “extension of the Chinese economy”, he said Bangladesh is the “only guardian of the ocean for all this region”.
“Seven states of India, eastern part of India, called seven sisters… they are landlocked country, landlocked region of India. They have no way to reach out to the ocean,” Yunus said.
“We are the only guardian of the ocean for all this region. So this opens up a huge possibility. So this could be an extension of the Chinese economy. Build things, produce things, market things, bring things to China, bring it out to the whole rest of the world,” the Bangladesh leader added.
Clips of the video where Yunus can be heard making the remarks were shared by the Bangladesh interim government on its social media handles.