POLITICS
ZHANG Liang-bing, LUO Hua-song, HONG Ju-hua, LU Hao-jian, ZHOU Mei-qi
In recent years, with the continuous advancement of the U.S. "Indo-Pacific Strategy," Bangladesh's geopolitical value has become increasingly prominent within the framework of this strategy. Drawing on the concept of geopolitical imagination and machine learning analysis methods, this paper interprets the geopolitical imagination of Bangladesh regarding the U.S. "Indo-Pacific Strategy" from 2018 to 2023, through the examination of text from mainstream news media outlets in China, the United States, India, and Bangladesh, focusing on cognition, motivation, and emotion from key geopolitical entities. The research finds that in Bangladesh's geopolitical imagination of the U.S. "Indo-Pacific Strategy":1) There are two deviations in spatial relevance: first, there is a deviation in the spatial correlation between United States and Bangladesh; second, there is a deviation in the spatial correlation density.2) There is a decline in the sentiments of key geopolitical entities.3) Bangladesh exhibits two cognitive biases: Firstly, a geopolitical cognitive bias towards the U.S. "Indo-Pacific Strategy"; secondly,cognitive biases about geographical identity.4) Bangladesh lacks two types of attitudes: Firstly, a lack of clear attitudes towards neighboring countries in South Asia and Southeast Asia; secondly, a lack of expression of proactive attitudes.