Himalayan Asia

By World Bulletin/News Desk Chinese president Xi Jinping has promoted three People's Liberation Army (PLA) generals known to be close to him and also asked...

By Deepak Gajurel — It is high time that Beijing should consider correcting its past policies, if not for Nepal’s interests, for the sake of China’s itself. This was in pursuance of two aspects, first, obliterating any recurrence of West European conflict, and second, containing the Soviet Union from penetrating into West Europe.

दीपक गजुरेल — जसरी पनि सत्तामा जाने चाहनाले हाम्रा राजनीतिक शक्तिहरूलाई अराजनीतिक मात्र होइन, लगभग आपराधिक बनाइदिने गरेको छ । यस क्रममा एक पछि अर्को गर्दै हाम्रा सबै महत्वपूर्ण राष्ट्रिय संस्थाहरू कमजोर पारिए, समाप्त पारिए, हामीलाई नै हतियार बनाएर । प्रहरी, प्रशासन, व्यवस्थापिका, सेना, न्यायपालिका, राजनीतिक दलहरू, नेताहरू, संस्कृति, धर्म, परम्परा, सबैलाई कमजोर पारियो वा मासियो नै, केही गर्नै नसक्ने गरी, फेरि उठ्नै नसक्ने गरी । एउटा शक्ति अर्का विरूद्ध प्रयोग भएर क्रमै सँग एक–अर्कालाई मास्ने विदेशी दाउ रोकिएको छैन नेपाली राजनीतिमा । हामी विदेशीको स्वार्थका लागि आपसमा लड्दैछौँ । अबको लडाइँ कसका विरुद्ध, कसलाई हतियार बनाएर, कसरी गराइन्छ भन्ने थाहा पाइञ्ज्याल हामी अझ कमजोर भैसक्ने निश्चित छ ।

We did try to tame the Tibetans. The Chinese just kept asking us for more, without stopping to ponder their own role in aggravating...

By Maila Baje — From official pronouncements and public anticipation alike, the substitution of India by China as Nepal’s most important economic partner seems to have acquired national urgency. While the south has long denigrated our assertions of national sovereignty as a brazen display of the ‘China card’, the north has left us wilting in the winds. When it’s show time, they (Chinese) have always advised us to remain in India’s good books. A one-time grant of petrol, arms to crush the Maoist rebels, 600 sacks of salt – we know the drill.

By Balbir Punj Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa has made many overtures to China by ignoring Indian bids for projects in the island country and...

By Maila Baje - While the Indian media has been jumping around that New Delhi’s policies have pushed Kathmandu into Beijing’s arms, official India seems remarkably unperturbed. That a political establishment that until the other day was thanking India for forging the mainstream-

“We hope Nepal becomes a bridge for China with India and South Asia.” By Telegraphnepal China raises Nepal aide 5-fold to compete with India. This is what...

शम्भुराम जोशी — भूकम्पको पीडाले थलिएको छिमेकी प्रति मोदीको त्यो व्यवहारलाई किन अमानवीय कदम नभन्ने ? नाकाबन्दीका कारण नेपालको अर्थव्यवस्था चरमरायो र रु. २२० अर्व भन्दा बढीको नोक्सानी मात्रै भएन कि गरिबी पनि बढ्यो । नेपाल सार्वभौमसत्ता सम्पन्न भएकाले यो जोसँग पनि आफ्ना ढंगले सम्वन्ध राख्न सक्दछ भन्ने उनीहरूले बुझ्नुपर्छ । पोखरामा बेलुनमा कालो झन्डा उडाएर केही समय अगाडि नेपालमा आएका भारतका तत्कालीन राष्ट्रपति प्रणव मुखर्जीलाई देखाइएको धेरै भएको छैन ।

By Gopal Thapa Our foreign policy vis-à-vis China and India must be informed by the exigencies of strategic realities The man who ‘unified’ modern Nepal, Prithvi...