Speaking in the House of Representatives on Wednesday, the immediate-past finance minister, Prakash Sharan Mahat, expressed serious reservations over Nepal’s preparations to potentially sign the implementation plan of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) with China. Although the government is yet to officially decide to sign the plan, which outlines the funding modality and project...
Soon after changing his governing alliance with the Nepali Congress, Prime Minister Pusha Kamal Dahal is sending Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs Narayan Kaji Shrestha to China. Whenever the two major left parties, Dahal’s CPN (Maoist Centre) and the CPN-UML led by KP Sharma Oli, band together, rumours make rounds in Kathmandu...
काठमाडौँ — चिनियाँ राजदूत छन् साेङले केही मिडियामा आएजस्तो ‘बेल्ट एन्ड राेड इनिसिएटिभ (बीआरआई)ले नेपाललाई ऋणमा पारेकाे भन्ने हल्ला भएकाे बताएका छन् । ‘बीआरआई’ले नेपाललाई ऋणमा पारेकाे भन्ने हाेइन : चिनियाँ राजदूतचिनियाँ कम्युनिस्ट पार्टी र नेपालका राजनीतिक दलहरूबीचकाे सहकार्य सम्मेलनमा आइतबार उनले बीआरआईमार्फत् चीनले बढी अनुदान दिएकाे पनि बताए । उनले नेपालकाे कुल विदेशी ऋण...
In an unprecedented move, visiting Chinese leaders have publicly claimed that certain countries are trying to destabilise the good relations between Nepal and China, while some elements are also defaming the Belt and Road Initiative by calling it a ‘debt trap’. During an interaction with second-rung leaders of major political parties represented in Parliament, Sun...
KATHMANDU, Jan. 29 (Xinhua) — Nepal has voiced hope for deepening intra-party exchanges and cooperation with China, so as to promote an in-depth development of bilateral relations. A delegation of the Communist Party of China (CPC) led by Sun Haiyan, deputy head of the International Department of the CPC Central Committee, visited Nepal from Jan....
Nepal and China will sign the implementation plan of the Belt and Road Initiative “very soon”, Deputy Prime Minister Narayan Kaji Shrestha said on January 27, nearly seven years after the two neighbours inked an agreement to undertake ambitious Beijing-backed infrastructure projects in the Himalayan nation. ALSO READ What is the Belt and Road Initiative,...
Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Home Affairs Narayan Kaji Shrestha said on Saturday that Nepal and China will sign the implementation plan of the Belt and Road Initiative “very soon” without giving any specific details and dates. Signing of the BRI implementation plan is the key to negotiate and execute the projects under the...
सोमवार राति अबेर जारी गरिएको नेपाल-चीन संयुक्त वक्तव्यमा थोरै नयाँ र धेरै पुराना विषयवस्तुहरू समेटिएका छन्। कूटनीतिक मामिलामा संयुक्त वक्तव्य भनेको त्यस्तो दस्तबेज हो जसमा दुवै देशको चित्त बुझेको हुन्छ र दुवै प्रतिबद्ध भएका हुन्छन्। त्यसैले शब्दशब्दमा छलफल गरेर त्यसो टुङ्गो लगाइन्छ। ताइवान मामिलाबारे नेपालको स्पष्ट अडान, चीनले अघि सार्दै आएको ग्लोबल डेभलप्मन्ट इनिशटिभको मित्रसमूहमा...
With the projects mentioned under the framework failing to take off in Nepal, China has labelled an airport whose construction was started before Nepal signed up to BRI, under its ambit, and is pushing to employ soft power tools such as “Silk Roadster” Nepal has completed six years since it signed up to China’s Belt...
Blurred definitions and unilateral declarations on Beijing’s part have left Nepal struggling to define the BRI. How does one define the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI)? Does the BRI only mean infrastructure projects that have been explicitly listed under the initiative by a host country? Or does it encompass a larger vision of connectivity and...