Tag: #Belt and Road Initiative
Articles tagged with #Belt and Road Initiative
Fixing the broken parts in Nepal-China ties
Chinese President Xi Jinping with President Bidya Devi Bhandari during his state visit to Nepal in 2019. Photos: NEPALI TIMES ARCHIVE.Chinese…
China lobbying against MCC
A $500 million American grant to upgrade Nepal’s infrastructure appears at first glance to be delayed because of domestic politics. But the real…
“China’s BRI will ride out the pandemic”
Pradumna B Rana is Visiting Associate Professor at the Centre for Multilateralism Studies of the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies…
BRI and trans-Himalayan connectivity
When Chinese social media posted photographs last month of engineers surveying the extension of the Tibet Railway, one of the images showed Mt…
‘Once upon a time there was an America…’
In the last few months we have witnessed the continued unraveling of the United States. Many might attribute the dismantling of what once was…
The India, US, Nepal, China quadrangle
Nepal’s Communist Party leaders must take note of two events that unfolded in India this week: the roaring welcome to US President Donald Trump…
A millennium challenge
Illustration: BHANU BHATTARAILegend has it that the real reason Nepal stayed an independent nation state while all around us were colonised was…
TRILATERAL TRAINS
Illustration: BHANU BHATTARAIThe trans-Himalayan railroad has been in the news lately. And like everything else in Nepal, it is difficult to…