KATHMANDU, Dec 2 - Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi has arrived here in the capital Tuesday evening for a three-day visit to Nepal leading a 10-member Chinese delegation. The visit of the northern neighbour’s foreign minister comes a week after Indian Minister for External Affairs Pranab Mukherjee’s trip to Nepal. The Chinese foreign minister, who came to Nepal on the invitation of his Nepali counterpart Upendra Yadav, will attend a dinner party organised by Yadav to night. Jiechi is scheduled to call on Prime Minister Pushap Kamla Dahal and President Dr Ram Baran Yadav on Wednesday. According to a foreign ministry source, the Chinese Foreign Minister will discuss the peace process and bilateral cooperation among other issues with his counterpart.
I recently read the news of Ambassador Powell for Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala stating to treat Tibetans in Nepal well , to make sure there Human Rights are respected .
All these stuffs make me feel, Nepal Is Completely Ruled by The Other Big Nations.
In Middle of all those huge Nations Nepal is more like a football. India Wants Nepal to be a Hindu Country and Keep the King. China Ask Nepal to shoot any protest that goes against the Olympic, on top of that US ask Nepal to treat those protestors well!!!
Come on... don't we have rights to think what is fair and do whatever is correct??? At the end it's not we are being kicked by Other Nations but The Corrupt politicians kicked us to the foreign envoys and they play around with us, SAMEFULL!!!
Prakash A Raj, Kathmandu
An article published in the Herald Tribune by Robert Radtka Vice President of Asia Society in the US raises interesting questions about economic development in two of Nepal's neighbors India and China. Radtke believes that economies of India and China that are competing with each other might become more complimentary in the future. He concludes China may believe it has more to gain by establishing amicable relationship with India. Steps taken in recent years in normalizing Sino-Indian relations should also interest Nepal. Both India and China have enjoyed impressive growth rates in the past decade. Both are on their way to become economic giants. Nepal is situated just north of heavily populated states of Uttar Pradesh and Bihar in India, which has remained relatively backward. Tibet Autonomous Region is sparsely populated but will be linked with eastern part of China by railway. Nepal is already linked with Tibet by Kodari Highway built in the 1960's. A second highway is being constructed now that will link Kathmandu by Rasuwa to Keyrong. Nepal should be able to take advantage of its proximity to both Indian and Chinese markets. China was able to get foreign investment of $54 billion in 2003, which was ten times more than that received by India. While the strength of the Chinese economy is in manufacturing, that of India is in services.
Recently, Chinese government has provided medicines and hospital equipment worth 1.4 million Nepali rupees to B.P. Koirala Memorial Cancer Hospital in Nepal. The Chinese government has been providing medicines since 1999.
Even recently experts said in Kathmandu, transit economy between China and India will serve as a milestone to generate employment and boost Nepal`s economy. The trade volume between China and India stands about 10 billion US dollars and the two countries plan to increase it to 30 billion US dollars within 20 years.
