Biratnagar: Nepal’s political scenario as it stands today: Draw your own conclusions.

# Nepali Congress Stalwart Dr. Shekhar Koirala accuses Nepal Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli that he is ruling Nepal as per the dictates of Chinese President Xi Jinping.

Dr. Koirala’s own Nepali Congress party is in a mess but yet he is apparently the next NC Presidential candidate.

# Dr. Koirala was presumably a key political man together with Krishna Prasad Sitaula who had assisted the Delhi sponsored 12-point agreement while it was being drafted by Shyam Saran in Delhi.

# Thus Koirala also facilitated the entrance of the Maoists leaders to Nepal from Delhi shelter in 2006.

# Chinese Ambassador to the Nepali Court Ms. Hou Yanqi with a very heavy heart said the other day that Nepal is free to accept the Millennium Challenge Corporation offer and that the Nepali decision on MCC shall not be objected by her country.

# In saying so, the Ambassador from the north appears visibly disturbed by chances that Nepal may get influenced by the MCC offer.

# PM Oli’s yes men in the cabinet have hinted that the MCC shall be ratified by the Nepali Parliament soon.

# If not so then what was the need to summon a hurried Press Conference at the embassy by Ambassador Hou Yanqi to clarify he country’s stance on the MCC?

# Political men like Bhim Rawal and Dev Gurung in a determined manner believe that the MCC is a US net which shall ultimately twist Nepali arms to create troubles to the Chinese regime through Tibet-China’s soft underbelly.

# Dev Gurung spent some good ten years in Delhi along with Comrade Prachanda during the fake People’s War sponsored by the Indian establishment designed by Shyam Saran.

# These two political figures claim that the MCC is an integral part of the Indo-Pacific Strategy.

# Adding fuel to the fire, two key US officials have reiterated that MCC was an integral part of the IPS and that it is a strategy but not a policy as is given to understand by selected “some” both within and without.

# Senior commentators in Nepal now dare to say that China too is not a reliable friend of Nepal who could be trusted and relied upon as it were during the days of Chairman Mao and Prime Minister Chou En Lai.

# If China plays double then Nepal should reciprocate the same trick.

# These senior political commentators say that had China been a good and reliable partner of Nepal then she would not have signed a bilateral trade agreement with India on Lipulek tri-junction on May 15, 2015 and that too without consulting Nepal in advance?

# China has yet to realize its Lipulek blunder. By the same token why Nepal be obliged to hobor and respect Chinese concerns?

# This further proves that China is no less cunning than India when Ambassador Hou in Kathmandu told the attending press men that the theory of 2+ 1 is in effect a tri lateral alliance which is incorrect in that the two (India and China) and the plus one is Nepal or any country of the liking of India or China.

# The plus 1 is the extra political clown as observed by India and China-the two main regional hegemons.  # This further means that China prefers to fool Nepal that the much publicized 2+1 is nothing but a trilateral alliance to which it is not.

# How could 2+1 be a trilateral alliance? It is definitely an unexplained different scheme designed by India and China to fool the smaller countries.

# Ambassador Hou’s press meet summoned in haste does tell that China and India are planning to damage Nepal in a big way as per the Wuhan and Chennai Spirit.

# If so then why should Nepal stick to One China policy?

# Nepal too should be left free on how to treat with China. Tit for tat. Isn’t it?

# However, this should not mean that Nepal encourage anti-China activities in Nepal.

# But if China goes against Nepal and its core interests then Nepal has the right to place China in the Indian category-the number one oppressor.

Dr. Anil Sigdel says in Naya Patrika that we should focus the debate on the profitable part of the MCC to Nepal. The MCC is a grant offer than what is being otherwise given to understand by Rawal and Dev Gurung.

# Analysts Bharat Dahal says that the MCC is a Military alliance and that it should not be ratified by the Parliament.

# Logic demands that since MCC has been signed already with the US then it is already binding on Nepal thus no more debates on this issue.

# Dr. Shekhar Koirala recently claimed in Biratnagar that Nepal must treat MCC and the Belt and Road Initiative equally. This means that for Koirala, the US and China were both important for Nepal.

# Dr. Koirala is the single NC political man who since long has been suggesting the Nepal government(s) to take China always in confidence and listen to the Chinese concerns.

Concluding remarks: Nepal government is thus advised to seek further clarifications on how 2+1 amounts to a trilateral alliance and if it is so then why the two differing nomenclatures?

The Chinese Envoy must clarify? Earlier the better if China prefers to remain in the hearts of the Nepali population. That’s all.