Yangtze basin Floods: Disrupting Chinese Lives
“Water is fluid, soft, and yielding. But water will wear away rock, which is rigid and cannot yield. As a rule, whatever is fluid, soft, and yielding will overcome whatever is rigid and hard....
Author: Manish Jung Pulami
Nepal’s Digital Diplomacy
“When people think of digital diplomacy, they think of government tweeting. It is not what it is. That is public diplomacy.” ~Jared Cohen “But it is what people understand and government do for digital...
Impact of COVID-19 in remittances of South Asian States
The COVID-19 pandemic has been dismantling the countries’ economies. Many countries’ source of income is the flow of remittances from other countries, and these countries are weak or fragile economies. A huge drop in...
Intra-Party Conflict and Future of Nepal’s Relations with India and China
In May 2018, the two communist parties in Nepal, CPN-UML and CPN (Maoist centre), merged together to form the Nepal Communist Party (NCP). But now the ruling party NCP is at the crossroads of...
Has China Charmed Nepal? : A Development Perspectives
In recent days, there has been a fallacy in the Nepal-India relations after the Nepal-India border disputes that, Nepal is acting on the behest of China. Many have compared the ideological affinities between the...
COVID-19: Nepal’s Evacuation of its Stranded Citizens
“The migrant crisis continues unabated. By better understanding the risks facing these people, we can do more to protect them.” – IOM spokesperson Leonard Doyle Nepalese migrant workers have been stranded in the Gulf States,...
Before any Nepal-India disputes, we must remember Gurkhas!
Speaking of Gurkhas, India’s first Field Marshall Sam Manekshaw mentioned, “If anyone tells you he is never afraid, he is a liar or he is a Gurkha.” A Tripartite Agreement was signed between Nepal,...
Connecting BIMSTEC Economies
The connectivity in the Bay of Bengal has been minimal in the past few decades, and the regional integration in South Asia has been under the jeopardy. As the largest bay in the world,...
US-China COVID-19 Narrative
Coronavirus pandemic is the global crisis and the greatest challenge in the world after WWII. And, this coronavirus is being fought at numerous fronts- medical, informational and ideological. As the states have been isolating...
Nepal’s Increasing Trade deficit with India and Bangladesh
Nepal and India have shared trade and commercial relations as neighbours in South Asia for a very long period. India is Nepal’s largest export market and the biggest source of its import. Nepal enjoys...
