After India, Hasina to make China visit

Beijing, July 4: China on Thursday announced that Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will visit Beijing early next week and meet China’s top leadership, including President Xi Jinping, which will facilitate political mutual trust, and push bilateral relations to a new level.
Hasina’s 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 Dhaka’s biggest investors.
“This is her (Hasina’s) first visit to China since she started her new term. It is also her second visit to China in five years,” Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mao Ning told a media briefing here. (PTI)