News, Views From Nepal

 Yuba Nath Lamsal Different communist factions in Nepal marked the founding day of the Nepal Communist Party (NCP) on April 22 with tall speeches and statements calling for a broader communist unity. However, their actions and behaviour do not at all match with what they say. Despite their tall talks of communist unity, over a dozen of communist parties exist in Nepal and they are inimical to one another. The NCP was founded in 1949 by five young revolutionaries namely Pushpalal Shrestha, Nar Bahadur Karmacharya, Narayan Bilas Joshi, Niranjan Govinda Vaidya and Moti Devi Shrestha in exile with Pushpa Lal as general secretary.  Puspalal was the mastermind behind the formation of the NCP. He is therefore regarded as the father of the communist movement in Nepal. This was the time when the communist movement was vibrant globally. The victory of the Bolsheviks ‘s revolution led by V I Lenin and establishment of the communist system in the Soviet Union (now R...

 Yuba Nath Lamsal International politics is the projection of national power. Parties and politicians seek to gain political power at home, maintain and enlarge it, so do the countries in the international level. Countries that possess necessary capabilities to project and assert power in the international level tend to be hegemonic. This is the nature of state power in the international relations. Greater the power and capability, the more hegemonic and assertive they become. This is the phenomenon of international power politics. Great power competition is the natural phenomenon, which has been in practice right from the dawn of civilisation. In the race of power projection, some powers, in the course of time, lose their relevance and get thrown into the pit of history, while new ones ascend in the global theatre. This is the process of rise and fall of great powers.  The rise of China is a part of this reality. China’s rise is thus the most important ...