US-China power play in Bangladesh

It appears that Bangladesh will be the new battleground for a war of influence between the US and China in the Indo-Pacific

The US-China rivalry is now playing out in India's backyard – in Bangladesh. China has openly supported the Sheikh Hasina government in the wake of targeted sanctions by the US some months earlier against the country's notorious Rapid Action Battalion (RAB), allegedly responsible for the extrajudicial killing of the regime's critics. The support also comes in the wake of the US threatening to deny visas to anyone interfering in the conduct of free and fair polls in Bangladesh. 

The Chinese statement may be a geopolitical game-changer in the region that could impact not only India's "Look East Policy"