Anil Sigdel, PhD, Director Nepal Matters for America, Washington DC  “Mountains are the land of freedom”, goes a European saying. Switzerland perhaps lives up to this saying, among several neutral small states in Europe, for being mostly mountainous, permanently “neutral” in war and peace time, and economically highly successful. Given Switzerland’s geo-political and territorial similarities with […]

Dr. Anil Sigdel, Director at Nepal Matters for America, Washington DC Introduction: Although the very first article of the Treaty of Peace and Friendship between the Government of India and the Government of Nepal of 1950 contains the message of mutual acknowledgement and respect for each other’s “complete sovereignty”, precisely this very concept of complete sovereignty […]

Sundar nath Bhattarai Vice Chair, China Study center, Nepal  Sixty years of good neighborhood of Nepal with China, since the establishment of diplomatic relations between them in August 1955, has been the period of ever deepening intimacy, mutual support and cooperation. The intimate relationship between these two countries, having different political ideologies and geographical and […]

Professor Mohan Prasad Lohani Foreign Policy expert Nepal It has been sixty years since Nepal and China bound by age-old ties f exemplary friendship established diplomatic relations on August 1, 1955. Over the years, bilateral relations between the two countries have remained close, cordial, cooperative and problem free. Under the Communist Party of China (CPC) […]