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Nepal: The CPEC and SCO; Implications for South Asia’s Strategic Stability

“SCO is a regional organization aimed at strengthening cooperation between the eight-member states, namely, China, Russia, India, Pakistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan. The organisation was created in 2001, which was preceded by Shanghai Five mechanism”. -Excerpt from the article.  ################################################################### Usama Nizamani, Islamabad Pakistan MPhil Scholar at the National Defence University (NDU), Islamabad, Pakistan […]

Nepal: Interpretations vary on why Dr. Henry Kissinger landed in Beijing

“The trouble with the world is not that people know too little; its that they know so many things that aren’t so.” -Mark Twain.  ####################### N. P. Upadhyaya (Aryal) Kathmandu: Nepali intellectuals remained engrossed in speculating as to why the centenarian US veteran diplomat Dr. Henry Kissinger landed in Beijing, July, 2023. Interpretations varied from […]

The Psychological Basis of Nepalese Foreign Policy

“What a nation perceives also depends upon where its leaders stand on their various policy positions. buy prednisone online annapolisdermatology.com/images/hero/jpg/prednisone.html no prescription pharmacy The three Nepalese statesmen – Prithvi Narayan Shah, Prime Minister Jung Bahadur Rana, and King Mahendra – represented different ages and dissimilar policies—relative isolation, special ties with British India, and diversification respectively”. […]

Why ‘Nepal Army’ is the prime target?

-China and Pakistan should now without wasting a single second feel the gravity of the “emerging frightening situation and in concert begin providing higher training to the Nepal Army officers or else acute sovereignty issues shall grip Nepal soon-the symptoms of which are being floated by some depraved brains at the behest of inimical forces? […]

Nepal: No, the World is not Destined for War

Huntington (2016) writes, “The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion, but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence”. Talking about the enormous Chinese naval power of the past and their official overseas expeditions compared to the behavior of their Western counterparts Kennedy writes, “The Chinese […]