After her India visit, Sheikh Hasina to travel to China next week

China on Thursday announced that Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will visit Beijing early next week and meet Chinas top leadership including President Xi Jinping which will facilitate political mutual trust and push bilateral relations to a new levelHasinarsquos visit from July 8 to 10 days after her India visit is being seen as an apparent attempt to balance ties between India and China one of Dhakarsquos biggest investorsldquoThis is her Hasinarsquos first visit to China since she started her new term It is also her second visit to China in five yearsrdquo Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mao Ning told a media briefing hereDuring her visit she will meet President Xi Premier Li Qiang and attend the signing ceremony of cooperation documents together Mao saidThe leaders of the two countries will have an ldquoindepth exchange of viewsrdquo on deepening traditional friendship expanding mutually beneficial cooperation and international and regional issues of common concern the spokesperson said adding that Hasina will also attend the ChinaBangladesh Business Trade and Investment ConferenceldquoThe visit will facilitate political mutual trust strengthen the development strategies promote highquality joint construction of the lsquoBelt and Roadrsquo accelerate the implementation of the three major global initiatives and push ChinaBangladesh relations to a new levelrdquo Mao saidHasinarsquos China visit was expected to focus on more Chinese investments in Bangladesh under the Belt and Road Initiative BRI a multiproject multicountry infrastructure project of China Next to Pakistan Bangladesh is the biggest recipient of Chinese investments estimated to be over USD 25 billionHasinarsquos Beijing visit follows her travel to New Delhi last month besides her attendance at the swearing ceremony of Prime Minister Narendra Modi for the third term signifying close ties between India and BangladeshAfter her talks with Modi on June 22 both sides decided to work on a mega project to conserve and manage the crossborder Teesta River apart from moving ahead to start negotiations on a comprehensive trade pact and boosting defence tiesIncidentally China has also evinced interest to build a mega project on the Teesta RiverAfter returning from her India visit Hasina said Bangladesh would gauge proposals from both India and China for that mega project and accept the better one for her countryThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever