Published On: September 8, 2021 01:58 PM NPT By: Gaurav Bhattarai
Nepal has already built a national consensus on not accepting loans to build Chinese railways and rather prioritise grants (Republica, 2019). Hence, debt trap doesn’t appear as a challenge in the context of Nepal-China railways. But, expressing suspicion over China’s flagship project, even the United States has cautioned Nepal not to fall into the Chinese ‘debt trap’.
Published On: July 16, 2018 01:00 AM NPT By: Gaurav Bhattarai
What are the new markers of Nepal’s neutrality when Nepali leaders are redefining Nepal as a bridge between India and China?
Published On: February 22, 2018 01:00 AM NPT By: Gaurav Bhattarai
Going beyond neighborhood will help free Nepal from clutches of geopolitical vulnerabilities and lessens our asymmetric dependence on neighbors
Published On: October 24, 2017 12:30 AM NPT By: Gaurav Bhattarai
Fragile internal politics combined with complex geopolitics oblige every political leader in Nepal to try to appease India and China.
Published On: June 21, 2017 12:15 AM NPT By: Gaurav Bhattarai
Equidistance indicates maneuvering of small states like Nepal while dealing with big powers like India and China
Published On: May 16, 2017 12:25 AM NPT By: Gaurav Bhattarai
The train will bring cheap Chinese goods. But will we then send it back empty on its return leg?
Published On: April 26, 2017 12:25 AM NPT By: Gaurav Bhattarai
BCIM will lessen Nepal’s dependence on India by giving it direct access to markets beyond India
Published On: March 27, 2017 12:25 AM NPT By: Gaurav Bhattarai
Some Chinese scholars openly claim that Nepal’s strategic location provides an advantage to China
Published On: March 7, 2017 12:25 AM NPT By: Gaurav Bhattarai
Nepal could join OBOR for the strategic purpose of asserting her sovereign rights and for enacting her policy of equidistance
Published On: February 22, 2017 12:25 AM NPT By: Gaurav Bhattarai
There has in the past been no palpable shift in India’s larger Nepal policy even with government change in UP or Bihar
Published On: February 7, 2017 12:25 AM NPT By: Gaurav Bhattarai
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been applying the four famous tactics of Kautilya with abandon
Published On: January 26, 2017 12:35 AM NPT By: Gaurav Bhattarai
We should convince our neighbors that Nepal doesn’t see trilateral cooperation as a strategic concept, but as an economic and socio-cultural phenomenon