by Purushottam Poudel in the Kathmandu Post, Mar 18, 2023The Chinese scholars interested in Nepal’s affairs have attributed Nepali Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal’s reluctance to take part in the Boao Forum for Asia (BFA) to geopolitical factors. Speaking at the ‘Interaction with the Chinese Scholars’ organised by the Nepali Embassy in Beijing, Zhang Shubin, director of the Nepal Studies Centre at Hebei, said, “We know that even though China had extended an official invitation,…