Fixing the broken parts in Nepal-China ties
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi has hopefully had his team do some diligent homework on Nepal before arriving in Kathmandu on 25...
belt-and-road-initiative
China lobbying against MCC
A $500 million American grant to upgrade Nepal’s infrastructure appears at first glance to be delayed because of domestic politics. But the real reason...
“China’s BRI will ride out the pandemic”
Pradumna B Rana is Visiting Associate Professor at the Centre for Multilateralism Studies of the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS)...
BRI and trans-Himalayan connectivity
When Chinese social media posted photographs last month of engineers surveying the extension of the Tibet Railway, one of the images showed...
‘Once upon a time there was an America…’
In the last few months we have witnessed the continued unraveling of the United States. Many might attribute the dismantling of what...
The India, US, Nepal, China quadrangle
Nepal’s Communist Party leaders must take note of two events that unfolded in India this week: the roaring welcome to US President Donald...
A millennium challenge
Legend has it that the real reason Nepal stayed an independent nation state while all around us were colonised was that our...
TRILATERAL TRAINS
The trans-Himalayan railroad has been in the news lately. And like everything else in Nepal, it is difficult to separate hot air...
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