Dhaka, Sept. 20 -- The last few days have witnessed Chinese senior officials undertaking trips to various countries and attending meetings to try and resolve and reduce impact of evolving sensitive issues that are casting shadows on their multifaceted bilateral relations.

Towards the end of the first week of September we had a senior Chinese diplomat Yang Jiechi, a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and Director of the Office of the Foreign Affairs Commission of the CPC Central Committee visiting three countries-- Myanmar, Spain and Greece. It was subsequently explained that these trips were aimed at consolidating mutual political trust, expanding cooperation and creating consensus on c...