This edited volume examines global power-rivalry in and around South Asia through Bangladeshi lenses using imperfect and overlapping interest concentric-circles as a template. Dynamics from three transitions —the United States exiting the Cold War, China emerging as a global-level power, and India eastern interests squaring off with China Belt Road Initiative, BRI—help place China, India, and the United States (in alphabetical order) in Bangladesh “inner-most� circle, China, India, and the United States in a “mid-stream� circle, and the United States and Latin America, among other countries, in the “outer-most� circle, depending on the issue. In an atmosphere of short-term gains over-riding long-term considerations, the desperate, widespread search for infrastructural funding inside South Asia enhances China value, raises local heat, releases new challenges, with costly default consequences looming, issue-specific analysis overtaking formal bilateral relations and a stubborn uncertainty riddling the Bangladeshi air as its policy preferences stubbornly show more certainty.