COUNTERING CHINA IN NEPAL AND THE NEIGHBOURHOOD
On May 15, India’s army chief suggested what many were afraid to say—bringing up the border dispute in the Kalapani region with India, he noted that Nepal “might have raised the issues at the behest of someone else”, obviously referring to China. This was swiftly followed by a flurry of paranoid China analysis. On television, talking heads bellowed about a Chinese “puppet government” in Kathmandu, even asking India to use its “assets” to topple it.
We don’t know what hard intelligence General M.M. Naravane and the government may have to prove that Beijing really instigated Nepal against India. But we do know that China has been giving India a tough time in Nepal and across the neighbourhood.
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