by Krishana Prasain in The Kathmandu Post, Nov 12, 2023China has decided to reopen the Korala border point for both trade and travel movements from Monday onwards after a hiatus of four years since it was closed. Nepal shares a 1,400-km long border with Tibet along the Himalayan range. China allows trade and transit through six border points—Tatopani-Khasa, Rasuwa-Kerung, Yari (Humla)-Purang, Olangchung Gola-Riwu, Kimathanka-Riwu and Nechung (Mustang)-Lizi—for bilateral trade with Nepal. Korala is the fourth…
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By Anil Giri in The Kathmandu Post, Oct 13, 2023Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Home Affairs Narayan Kaji Shrestha will represent Nepal in the third Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation (BRF) to be held in Beijing on October 17 and 18. Although invitations to the event were sent to the government of Nepal and other line ministers like Energy Minister Shakti Basnet and Minister for Physical Infrastructure and Transport Prakash Jwala, Prime…
by Anil Giri in The Kathmandu Post, Oct 6, 2023United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres, who is arriving in Kathmandu on October 13 on a four-day official visit, will be flying to Beijing on October 16 to participate in the third Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation (BRF). China has also invited the Nepal government to the BRF event, but Kathmandu has yet to decide who will participate in the event. China is hosting…
Report in The Kathmandu Post, Oct 1, 2023Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal returned home on Saturday after his two-week-long visit to China and New York. Talking to the media upon arrival at the Tribhuvan International Airport, Dahal made no mention of the Belt and Road Initiative, Chinese President Xi Jinping’s flagship project, that was tipped to be taken forward as a Nepal-China after negotiations in Beijing. Both the 40-point press note issued in Kathmandu and…
by Anil Giri in The Kathmandu Post, Sept 27, 2023Nepal and China on Tuesday issued a 13-point joint statement as part of Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal’s ongoing China visit, but it is short on specifics on how it will result in greater support and assistance from China, be it executing past agreements or signing of any new deal with Beijing. The joint statement released early Tuesday contains vague language and falls short of addressing…
by Khushboo Razdan in SCMP, Sept 19, 2023New York: Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe on Monday declared the Aukus security pact between Australia, Britain and the US “a mistake” while rejecting any concerns over Beijing’s perceived influence on his debt-ridden island nation. “It is a military alliance moved against one country – China,” he said at an event hosted by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in New York on the sidelines of the United…
report in The Kathmandu Post, Sept 12, 2023The visiting delegation of the CPN-UML raised the map issue with the leaders of the Communist Party of China during a meeting in Beijing on Monday. A high-level UML delegation led by the party’s General Secretary Shankar Pokhrel met with several CPC leaders as part of the exchange programme between the two Communist parties. “China should support Nepal’s new map [unveiled in May 2020],” Rajesh Rai, who is…
By Bibi Amina Hakimi in TOLOnews, June 27, 2023 at 10:52 PMThe Ministry of Industry and Commerce (MoIC) said that the Islamic Emirate and China are interested in connecting via the Wakhan corridor. The spokesman for the MoIC, Akhundzada Abdul Salam Jawad, said connecting Afghanistan across the Wakhan will increase trade with world countries and increase national revenue. “One of our dreams from the past is to connect via the Wakhan corridor with China… both…
EDITORIAL in The Island, May 3, 2023China has manoeuvred astutely to overshadow the IMF in Sri Lanka. It is never tired of waiting until the time is opportune for action. When Sri Lanka was left with no alternative but to go cap in hand to the IMF, last year, many thought that the western bloc and India had succeeded in removing it from China’s sphere of influence, and Beijing would have its work cut out…
report in Dhaka Tribune, Apr 19, 2023Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen on Tuesday reiterated his hope that the Rohingyas will start returning to their place of origin in Myanmar acknowledging that he had a discussion on the issue with the Chinese side recently. “Yes, we had a courtesy meeting (with a Chinese special envoy). Surely, there was a discussion on the Rohingya repatriation. We hope they will return to their homes with dignity,” Momen…