News, Views From Nepal

Yuba Nath Lamsal The heads of state and government from across the globe are now gathered at the United Nations headquarters in downtown Manhattan, New York, to debate issues facing the globe at the 69th UN General Assembly. As years pass by, the world sees new challenges and crises, and every year at the UN General Assembly, the world leaders promise to provide a better solution. But, much to the dismay of the people, the UN jamboree concludes with cosmetic rhetoric without any concrete steps to address the problems facing the global community. As a result, the world continues to suffer from multiple challenges. The United Nations General Assembly is, perhaps, the only global forum in which all member states, irrespective of their physical size, economic strength and military might, enjoy equal rights and say. All leaders are given equal time to speak while participating in the debate on several topics. The annual high-level debate, which officially kicked off on Sept

Yuba Nath Lamsal Chinese President Xi Jinping wrapped up South and Central Asia trip recently, of which Xi’s India visit was taken with much interest, enthusiasm and caution in Nepal. During Xi’s visit to India, some ground breaking developments took place which will go down as a milestone event in the history of China’s relations with India and also in the entire South Asia. Indian and Chinese politicians and analysts have described Xi’s India visit and agreement reached in New Delhi for mutual cooperation and benefits as a dawn of new era in the history of Sino-India bilateral relations.   During the three day visit to India, China pledged to invest billions of dollars in India’s infrastructure development projects including construction of high-speed railway, industrial parks and upgrading India’s moribund railway system. Apart from this, China and India have agreed for a strategic partnership on issues of mutual interests and benefits. It is now expected that China an

Chinese Dream, Chinese Diplomacy Yuba Nath Lamsal [1] The Chinese Dream is, perhaps, the most significant and visible concept and proposition Xi Jinping has envisioned both at home and in the international arena since he assumed China’s leadership as President as well as the General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Xi was elected as general secretary of the CCP in November 2012 and President of China in March 2013. Soon after assuming China’s leadership, President Xi announced the Chinese Dream and described it as a vision of "national rejuvenation, improvement of people’s livelihoods, prosperity, construction of a better society and military strengthening". At the same time, China’s new leadership has construed a new world outlook which is being interpreted as Beijing’s world dream that calls for building a harmonious world.   China has, therefore, remolded and remodeled its strategic thoughts and policy through a number of innovations and developments

Yuba Nath Lamsal The constitution writing process is in progress in the Constituent Assembly. On the surface, all political parties seemed to be serious and committed to completing the constitution writing process within the calendar fixed by the Constituent Assembly and having it promulgated it by the end of January next year. However, it is still not certain that the constitution will be delivered within the period of one year since the first meeting of the second Constituent Assembly was held.   The political parties had promised during the second Constituent Assembly election held November last year that they would deliver the new constitution within one year.  So far, the Political Dialogue Committee of the Constituent Assembly, which has been mandated to resolve all the contentious issues concerning the new constitution, has settled more than 90 per cent issues, most of which are non controversial upon which agreement had also been reached in the first Constituent Ass