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CBS I in the world. I'm John Bachelor.

Bangladesh I welcome Saddam Dumé, the American Enterprise Institute, he writes a column for the Wall Street Journal

editorial page looking at Bangladesh, which in general I've seen around the edges as being a success because the factory floor that used to dominate China

is moving towards countries like Bangladesh and that is bringing prosperity to villagers that

haven't known any in all their

families lives but a very good evening to you sardan on who is prime minister sheik

has seeni and what about this trouble in the streets of Dhaka? Where's it come from?

Good evening to you.

Very good evening to you, John.

Well, Shvekastina is one of the longest serving world leaders at this point.

She has been the Prime Minister of

Bangladesh most recently since 2019. In two, in two, earlier this year she was

elected to her fourth consecutive term.

She had served five years earlier in the late 1990s

between 1996 and 2001.

So if you add it all together, this is someone

who has been in office for more than 20 years.

And, you know, Bonnadesh, it's one of the top 10 most populous countries in the world.

It's the world's fourth most populous Muslim nation

after Indonesia, Pakistan, and Nigeria. It has 175 million people and it's wedged up between India and Myanmar and it's a kind of interesting play both in terms of just because it has a lot of people there's the you know questions of radicalism versus secularism

Democracy versus autocracy all this is playing out in Bangladesh

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