Foreign Policy · An essay on America's role in Bangladesh's faltering democracy
This essay, by the Bangladeshi writer Ahmede Hussain, is a must-read for anyone who assumed that Bangladesh must be doing fine politically because it is doing so well economically.
The West indirectly supports much that is good and bad in Bangladesh; many of the clothes Americans wear are made there. Meanwhile, as the essay reports, Bangladesh's government has been drawing closer to Russia and China, and India, America's new partner, is reported to be stymieing U.S. interests there. Could Western buyers use their leverage, through boycotts of Bangladesh's garment exports or similar means? Would it work?
