Nepal will carry out its second joint military exercise with China in September, The Times of India reported on Monday. The daily stated that “Nepal’s military diplomacy with Beijing remains a concern for India even as the neighboring country treads carefully on its foreign policy.”
The exercise will be held in Chengdu in China’s Sichuan province and is the second event of its kind. In April last year, Nepal and China held a similar military exercise.
Nepal has had several communist-led governments since the monarchy was replaced by a federal republic in 2007. The current prime minister, Khadga Prasad Sharma Oli, is one of two chairmen of the Nepal Communist Party (NCP), which was formed in May this year through a merger of the Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist-Leninists) and the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist Center).
Oli, who became prime minister in February, comes from the CPN (UML), while the other NCP chairman is Pushpa Kamal Dahal, also known as Prachanda, who led a Maoist insurgency from 1996 to 2006 and served as prime minister from 2008-2009 and from 2016-2017.
Nepal, a traditional Indian ally, has moved closer to China in recent years but still maintains important economic, political and military relations with New Delhi. Nepal has conducted battalion-level exercises with the Indian Army for the last 13 years and Prachanda will visit India next month before he travels to China.
“Similarly, even Oli visited India before he traveled to China after taking over as prime minister this year,” The Times of India also reported, adding that “fears of any drastic shift in Nepal’s foreign policy under the united communist government are unfounded.”
But joint military exercises with China are a new phenomenon that reflects Beijing’s rapidly increasing clout in the politically volatile Himalayan nation.
Why? Is India afraid of Nepal?
India is not afraid of Nepal. India is afraid of the debt diplomacy practices by China wherein poor nations are given loan and robbed of their lands to establish military bases by China.Nepal is a buffer nation between India and China as once Tibet was
India just hopes that Nepal doesn’t become another Tibet because the Dragon is very crafty and greedy.
Gavin Fernandes
Rohit Pandeya
Give it a rest sonny. There is no debt diplomacy but win-win cooperation!
Rohit Pandeya
Once tibet was india* haha Are you serious?Is that what they taught you at school? Let me recorrect you. Once many part of india and tibet was Nepal.
Rohit Pandeya we know who is greedy. Seven month blockade taught us how inhumane India is. India should take care of its million poor citizen and giving advice to Nepal. How can India blockade us even from essential medicinal supplies where many people died and talk about debt trap. We all see what tricks India plays, so don’t try to fool anyone. Every Nepali knows India is black snake that should be killed by beating with stick.
Rohit Pandeya previous nepalese leader are the servent of india. Because most of them educated indian political theory. B.p. koirala – Girija prasad koirala & Rana family.
They make nepal as a buffer state. They never think to built a connectivity with china. Nepal become india locked country. But present situation public are more educated and they know we are locked by our leader because they are created by india, such types of leader still in nepal. Public wants connectivity with china and free from india locked country. By the public pressure, Nepal joined the BRI. India worried and start new propaganda of debt trap. We know propaganda of india. But we will welcome if india join the china nepal india economic corridor. But if india try to distroy BRI then nepalese people will demand a base of PLA in nepalese soil.
India is a jealous country. China investing in pakistan – india is crying – china investing shrilanka india is crying – china investing bangladesh india is crying – china investing maldivs india is crying – now china investing in nepal – india also crying. This is an indian attitude. India dosen’t want see development of another country. We people of nepal heartly welcome china. If india put more pressure in our government against china nepal relation. we people demand for a base of PLA in nepalese soil.
Rohit Pandeya what about SIKKIM. Was SIKKIM always part of India? Look onto yourself on mirror before you point finger at other.
Rohit Pandeya so why dont the indians offer something better then them…problem is indians still believes that Gunboat policy still works but let me remind u guys that the days for Gunboat Diplomacy is long gone…
Rohit Pandeya …ohhh ..u dnt understand india policy towards nepal india is new British mindset who always want to make colonial era …India is rotten egg for South Asia .. in todays world every country do business with china then why u make bias abt China
India must be driven out of SAARC membership by 6 against 2 vote.
Nepal must do defence treaty with china.
India must return back all the teritory of nepal that is under occupation of india now after null and void of 1953 treaty.
so many issue are there to isolate india from SAARC and other international stages..
It should not be matter of concern to India.
Brother Nepal is small and poor… Still we are and will be closed with India by virtue of geography, location, culture, religion and people to people relation. Side by side we are very very conscious about not to be neither another Tibet nor Sikkim. …And once upon a time, China and India both were rulled by outsider and atleast Nepal kept its sovereignty in some form.
Ken Nguyen Which ones? I dont know what you do.. but you better concentrate on cooking Chinese/ Asian food while that can be a better career for you. Leave the diplomacy with better people. Its out of your league baby.. stay happy. God bless.
Did you understand one thing… India is SAARC! 🙂
Rakesh Chaulagain you dumb ass read it carefully.have they not tsught uou proper english and paragraph making.You should have come to India to study like many other nepalis do instead of learning from maowadi cadres.I never said Tibet as part of India but a buffer state between India and China.
Let’s say we both live in a common housing society, you are financially and educationally better family living in a house. And your children play with neighbouring kids in a common park. But your illiterate neighbour who has no education starts taking drugs, makes financially unviable deals which he cant afford and goes bankrupt, his children ask you for help – jobs and other things at the time putting a negative effect on your family and children….wont you be concerned? Nepal is that illiterate neighbour of India. India has to protect its citizen from any external threat.. prefarable through peaceful discussions with Nepal, but if there is no option… you better not provoke!
Nikhil Ghag thats a genuine concern about externalities. But the fact could be just opposite. Let me put this way- there is a neighbour whose kids starts playing with other than yours children – smarter than your kids you have excessively myopic and obssessed with self praise for your own kids as most of parents do. Now the concern is that as your neighbour’s kids get smarter than your kids, your own self praised kids will seem relatively dumb. This may be (???? is ) the true matter of concern.
Rohit Pandeya India also captured Sikkim. Nepal does not want to be another Sikkim .
Jivan Grg You are 100% right. India never want progress of Nepal.
Nikhil Ghag
Once a slaver India used to be; should not be slaver for ever and indian mindset is still the same as that of slave even after 60 years of indepenence from British master; resudal effect…..
Rohit Pandeya we are suffering
from the type of diplomacy India is playing since long. Colonial diplomacy.India never wants Nepal or Bhutan be independent from its clutch.In the name of roti beti relation we have to bow down to India.Slave mindset of India.British enslaved India and now India tries to do same with Nepal or Bhutan.