Nepal PM KP Sharma Oli is visiting China beginning June 19. 2018.
Nepal’s foreign ministry has announced the date of Oli’s visit to China but yet when our PM will meet his Chinese counterpart, Li Kwqing and pay a courtesy call on the President Xi Jinping has not yet been announced for some unknown reasons.
The stay of Nepal PM in China will be six days, it is learnt.
All the needed preparations to make PM Oli’s visit to China a “fruitful and meaningful” have been completed.
Oli’s message to the Chinese side would be perhaps to sound his host nation to speed up the agreements that have been already inked in between the two friendly countries so that Nepal begins benefitting from the previously signed agreements and understandings.
The focus would be for the materialization of the projects already agreed upon in the past.
Some new projects too remain in the pipeline to be signed while the Nepal PM Oli meets his counterpart and more over when he is granted an audience by President Xi Jinping.
Chances remain high that China may award a mega project (for example an employment generating factory to curb the Gulf fleeing Nepali youths) to Nepal as a token of respect and love for the people of Nepal.
(But the Northern neighbor fears that factories built by Beijing in all likelihood be sold at a dirt cheap price as and when Nepal is governed by the Nepali Congress party. The fear is real as this has happened in the past, if one were to recall.
It would be up to Nepal government to let the Chinese establishment know of the project or for that matter the factory of its choice which it needs in an urgent manner.
The members of the entourages of Madame Oli, Home Minister Ram Bahadur Thapa “Badal”, Foreign Minister Pradip Kumar Gyawali, Minister Raghubir Mahaseth and senior political advisor to PM Oli Mr. Bishnu Rimal.
Sources say that PM Oli is all set to address a Business forum in Lhasa, Tibet, on his way back to Kathmandu and is also expected to exchange views with the Tibet based academicians.
In the meantime, the People’s Daily, China too has confirmed in its fresh issue that Nepal PM Oli is visiting Beijing at the invitation of Li Keqiang, Chinese Premier, quoting the foreign ministry spokesperson Mr. Geng Shuang.
Observers here wish to sound the Chinese friends to help Nepal in having greater connectivity with the adjoining Tibetan Autonomous region of China so that Nepal can lessen its one country dependency.
China understands Nepali problems better. India’s increased high blood pressure as well.