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Abstract
Beijing and Washington's rivalry is transforming global political into a multipolar world order. China's rise has been instrumental in shaping the global world order by intentionally or unintentionally challenging the hegemonic posture of the US. The US, trying to retain the post-Cold War unipolar world order, is overtly trying to challenge the rise of China. The US-China rivalry has not even left behind the South Asian region. South Asia, which has its regional power aspirant to be a great power; India, has turned the region into a theatre of strategic triangular competition along with the US and China. The global and regional power rivalry has turned the region into a battle of competing visions with varying ideologies for regional and global world orders. The strategic triangular relations are rewriting new trade, investment, development and security patterns in South Asia. Just like during the Cold War era, the return of the great power rivalry has placed a developing country like Bangladesh with a completely new set of challenges. As Bangladesh so far has shown its merit in managing global and regional power rivalry, Dhaka is attracting greater geopolitical attention. Bangladesh's vital geostrategic position in the Indian Ocean makes the country more important among regional and extra-regional powers. However, as global and regional power rivalry is getting more intense, even countries like Bangladesh, which prefers a neutral position, face multifarious navigation challenges. Unlike existing literature on the choices available and how Bangladesh behaves in the geopolitical tide, this article introduces how Open-Source Geopolitical Intelligence can help Dhaka in geopolitical turbulence. This article contributes by introducing the usage and applicability of open-source intelligence (OSINT) in the study of geopolitics for Bangladesh. This is qualitative research, and the data collection methods are through secondary literature, documents, and expert interviews (three).