Bangladesh Skips a BRICS Summit in New Delhi

Bangladesh's absence from the BRICS summit in New Delhi has raised fresh questions about the state of its ties with India, Deutsche Welle reports. The obstacle named by the outlet is a person, not a policy: Sheikh Hasina, the ousted prime minister, remains in exile in India, and the report describes that fact as a major barrier to normalizing relations between the two neighbours. Diplomatic distance is often easiest to measure in the meetings that don't happen.