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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

Yuba Nath Lamsal Even as the number of people killed in last week's devastated floods and landslide triggered by torrential and incessant rain exceeded 100, political parties seem to have to been trying to reap political benefit out of the pains and plight of the flood-hit people. At this time of national tragedy, all political parties need to issue directives to their workers to concentrate their efforts in the rescue and relief operation. However, parties are just trading blame games and playing politics in it, which is most unfortunate. Politics is a profession to do public good, serve people and ensure good governance. Politics, in theory, is not a means to earn money or profit making venture. It should be like social service to be devoted to public welfare. But politics is being seen in Nepal and also in the world as something that one should try to avoid. It is becoming a profession or venture to make money and exploit people by misusing public positions, power and a