The United States of America is undergoing a seismic shift under its new President Donald Trump. His series of executive orders has/have rattled both allies and adversaries alike. These sweeping policies seek to overcome internal crises precipitated by the so-called global liberal order. Low growth, lingering recession, rising debt and unemployment, among others, have weakened...
Giving aid is not purely an act of kindness or responsible duty. It has seen and unseen motives. This rule also applies to most of the foreign aid. This does not mean that all aid is self-interested. There are also good donors, who donate selflessly. However, in most of the cases, foreign aid is also...
President Donald Trump has reversed climate action, vaccine funding and research and in a move that directly impacts Nepal, cut US funding for gender rights and reproductive health. Pulling out of the Paris climate accord and increasing fossil energy production and use will further accelerate melting of Himalayan glaciers threatening food production and increasing flood...
In the first two weeks of 2025, Vice-Minister of the International Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (IDCPC) Sun Haiyan met with the Bangladeshi and Nepali ambassadors to China. This was in line with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) deploying an increasingly sophisticated party-to-party diplomatic strategy across South Asia, revealing...
The fountains of liberal democracy are thought to have emerged from the West, particularly during the American, European, and French Revolutions in the late 18th century. The US has been a leading advocate for democracy, pluralism, and human rights ever since. The very “champion of democracy”, under its current president, assumes that its crusader is...
An executive decision by the Trump administration in Washington, D.C. to freeze foreign aid for 90 days and a potential shutdown of USAID has created ripple effects in the faraway Himalayan republic of Nepal. The decision will impact Nepal’s development, diplomacy, and geopolitics. On January 25, USAID formally contacted Dhaniram Sharma, the head of the...
Giving aid is not purely an act of kindness. It has both seen and unseen motives. In most cases, foreign aid is a tool to promote national interests. There is no free lunch. With Donald Trump taking to the presidential seat in the USA, a US official categorically stated that “US should only spend abroad...
Unequal distribution of wealth is the main reason for a section of the population to reel from abject poverty while for others, especially in the developed world, it is a means of luxurious and secure life. Charity and aid, by wealthy nations and individuals, seek to overcome this unequal allocation of resources so that those,...
Nepali Congress lawmaker Ram Hari Khatiwada< .. Read more at:http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/118124265.cms?utm_source=contentofinterest&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=cppst
Nepal may be another “worthless country” in Asia for Donald Trump but the US president does have fan followers here. During his first electoral victory, I read in the social media that a bunch of real-estate dealers in Nepal, somewhere in Lalitpur District, celebrated the victory by throwing a (booze) party. The reason: Being a...