Chinese Ambassador to the court of Nepal, Ms. Yu Hong paid a courtesy call on Home Minister, Mr. Ram Bahadur Thapa “Badal” at the Home Ministry just the other day.

The two high flying dignitaries, from Nepal and China, talked about the all-weather friendship that exists in between Nepal and China.
Nepal’s Home Minister Thapa was a fire brand Maoists leader changing camps suiting to his personal whims and political interests or else in the initial days of the Maoists War, if could be taken as claimed by the then revolutionaries who entered Nepal from Delhi via India engineered 12 point agreement, remained glued with the Party Chairman Prachanda since the very first days of the so called people’s war.
However, he later preferred to change his camps and ultimately settled with Mohan Baidya Kiran.
Minister Badal studied Engineering in the then Soviet Union.
But that was not the end of it all. Surprising many a party comrades Mr. Badal finally jumped to Prachanda’s camp again and, as the luck would have it, became the country’s home minister.
A lucrative post by the way in Nepal because it counts.
However, a rumor in Kathmandu’s political circuit claims that Comrade Prachanda is not that happy with Minister Badal for having challenged the “high flying contractor” in whose house Prachanda is residing these days in Khumaltar.
What if our Home Minister ignores his former Chairman’s instructions?

As a minister looking after the entire domestic affairs, Ram Bahadur Thapa has earned for himself a very good image in the eyes of the common population.
The Chinese Ambassador Ms. Yu Hong in person thanked Nepal Home Minister for having curbed the anti-China activities that were being conducted from the Nepali soil in the past.
The fact is that Nepal has done nothing in this regard as conveyed by the Chinese envoy. The crux of the matter is that after the Indian government told the Dalai Lama’s men in Dharam Shala, India, to confine their “activities” within the stipulated area or else the host country may take actions that may be an unpleasant one for the Tibetans residing in India being used as the “Dalai card” against China.
Pundit Nehru and his successor(s) used extensively the Dalai Card against China and when it suited them most.
India’s Foreign Minister, Sushma Swaraj, recently sent a letter to the Dalai Lama’s government in exile to limit their anti-china activities within the boundaries of Dharmshala only.

Since then, India and China have become Bhai-Bhai. This much is visible.
Yet the Chinese subtle diplomacy must be honored.
Madame Ambassador also thanked Nepal for sticking to one China policy to which the minister assured once again that Nepal will maintain its “One China” policy ad infinitum.

Utilizing the meet, Home Minister Thapa urged the Chinese Ambassador to extend her country’s meaningful support in curbing the illegal trade of Gold through the nearly porous Nepal-China border in the North.

The envoy appeared positive.
The Chinese Ambassador also has met foreign minister Pradip Gyawali.
However at another plane, she did not reveal the reason as to why Nepal was not invited to the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, SCO. Nepal is a “dialogue” member of the SCO, to recall.
India and Pakistan are taking part in the SCO meet for the first time together writes Xinhua, June 6, from Qingdao, China.
With the forthcoming summit — the first after a membership expansion that included India and Pakistan last year, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) is set to play a more influential and substantial role in promoting regional security, peace and prosperity, it is hoped.
The key diplomatic event, which runs from June 9 to 10 in east China’s coastal city of Qingdao, occurs at a time when the world is in need of concerted action to address challenges and threats ranging from regional conflicts to spreading terrorism, from populism to unilateralism, and must advance economic globalization and improve global governance to benefit all.
Established in Shanghai in 2001, the SCO has developed into a comprehensive regional organization, which actively plays a constructive role in regional and international affairs.

Notably, in 2015, when Modi and Xi Jinping met in Beijing, both China and India agreed to use Lipulek as their bilateral trade route. Lipulek is a Nepali landmass and both ignored Nepal for reasons unknown.
This was really unfortunate in that India and China signed the Lipulek agreement at a time when Nepal had been recovering from the tremors of great earth quake that had hit the country on April 25, 2015. Soon it was followed by the Modi’s India imposed economic blockade on Nepal that lasted well over six months.
China, Nepalese believe, is an all-weather reliable friend. But why Nepal was ignored and not invited to attend the SCO conference? Will China, as a good friend of Nepal, also correct the political blunder that she committed?
Border Expert, Mr. Buddhi Narayan Shrestha claims in his fresh article published in the Arthik Daily dated 7 June, 2018, that India as of today has gulped some six hundred six square kilometers of Nepali landmass. Goliath can’t be convinced.
Nepal’s strong Communist government prefers silence.

But as regards the Lipulek issue, PM Oli is expected to raise Nepal’s concern while he will be greeted by President Xi Jinping.
PM Oli will land in Beijing on June 19, it is talked.