Report in The Kathmandu Post, April 06, 2023Foreign Secretary of Nepal Bharat Raj Paudyal called on Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang at the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Beijing on Thursday. A press release issued by the Embassy of Nepal in Beijing following the meeting stated that the two sides discussed the matters related to strengthening the bilateral relations and cooperation between the two nations. “During the meeting, matters related to strengthening the longstanding…
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by Anil Giri in The Kathmandu Post,Apr 1, 2023Nepal and China are set to hold the 15th round of Diplomatic Consultation Mechanism talks in Beijing next week. For this, foreign secretary Bharat Raj Paudyal will travel to Beijing. At the talks scheduled for April 7, officials will discuss further promotion of bilateral relations and cooperation including high-level visits. Sun Weidong who has served as vice-minister of Foreign Affairs since 15 November 2022 will be leading…
By Banafsha Binesh in TOLOnews Online, March 18,2023 at 8:52 PMPakistan’s President Arif Alvi said that Beijing and Islamabad play significant roles in maintaining security and peace in Afghanistan. In an interview with China’s CCTV, Alvi said that a stable Afghanistan plays an important role in the development and success of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor, or the CPEC. “Another advantage of it is that many Central Asian countries, including Afghanistan, also hope to export their…
Report in The Kathmandu Post, Mar 17, 20223Published at : March 17, 2023Updated at : March 17, 2023 07:50The “neighbourhood first” policy that New Delhi adopted after the election of Narendra Modi as India’s prime minister in 2014 has proven to be no more than lip service, at least when it comes to the South Block’s treatment of the Nepali ambassador. Nepal’s Ambassador to India Shankar Sharma has been trying—without success—for 10 months to sit…
by Purushottam Poudel in The Kathmandu Post,Mar 13, 2023Qin Gang, the new foreign minister of China, is likely to give continuity to Beijing’s old policy towards Nepal, foreign policy experts say. On March 7, Qin, 56, addressed the international media for the first time since taking office as foreign minister. On the margins of the annual session of the Chinese parliament in Beijing, Qin told journalists quoting Confucius: “One should repay kindness with kindness, and…
by Balram Ghimire in The Kathmandu Post, Jan 8, 2023The demand for Nepali products has started to pick up in the Chinese market as Beijing has reopened two-way trade from the Rasuwagadhi-Kerung port, which was shut since the start of the Covid pandemic. Nepali traders have been exporting goods such as flour, turmeric, chilly, bamboo stool, grass broom, handicrafts, cosmetics, noodles and among others to Tibet via Rasuwagadhi. According to the local traders, the Tibetans…
by Anil Giri in The Kathmandu Post, Jan 1, 2023At a time when Kathmandu says no project under Beijing’s Belt and Road Initiative has been signed and Nepal and China are working to finalise the text of project implementation under the BRI, the Chinese Embassy in Kathmandu made a surprise announcement on Saturday. Just a day ahead of the inauguration of Pokhara International Airport by Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal, the Chinese Embassy wrote in…
report in The Kathmandu Post, Dec 29, 2022Beijing on Wednesday allowed Nepal’s exports to pass into China through the Kerung-Rasuwagadhi border after keeping it shut to two-way traffic for three years. Chinese goods have been entering Nepal intermittently through Kerung, one of the two international border points on the Nepal-China border, but it was no go in the other direction. “The two-way trade through the Kerung/Rasuwagadhi border port has been resumed today. After a ceremony,…
by Nazir Shinwari in ToloNews, Dec 9, 2022 at 09:00 PMBeijing is closely following Afghanistan’s security situation and it will continue to support Afghanistan’s efforts to combat terrorism, the Chinese foreign ministry said. Speaking at a press conference, Mao Ning, spokeswoman for China’s ministry of foreign affairs, said that Beijing strongly condemns the recent attacks and is firmly against all forms of violent terrorist activities. “We extend sympathies to the people who were injured in…