Next year marks the 40th anniversary of China’s recognition of Bangladesh. It’s not a celebrated anniversary for many, least of all the country’s prime minister, Sheikh Hasina. The year, 1975, was also that of the death of her father, the country’s independence hero Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. His struggle against Pakistani domination was bitterly opposed by Beijing, where in 1971 state media described him as a “puppet countenance” and the country’s creation as “fascist nonsense”. It wasn’t until he and most of his family were gunned down that China opened relations with the country.
明年是中國承認孟加拉40週年。沒有很多人會慶祝這個紀念日，孟加拉總理謝赫•哈西娜(Sheikh Hasina)更不會。1975年也是她的父親、孟加拉獨立英雄謝赫•穆吉布•拉赫曼(Sheikh Mujibur Rahman)遇刺身亡的那年。他反抗巴基斯坦統治的鬥爭遭到中國的極力反對，1971年，中國官方媒體稱他是「傀儡嘴臉」，將孟加拉的成立描述爲「法西斯主義的胡鬧」。直到他和他的大多數家人被槍殺之後，中國才與孟加拉建立了外交關係。
