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Yuba Nath Lamsal The Chinese Dream is something that has caught the global attention and this catch-phrase has become a subject of global debate. In fact, the Chinese Dream, which figured in a more pronounced and prominent manner after the present team of leaders headed by President Xi Jinping and Prime Minister Li Keqiang, took over power in Beijing earlier this year. While Chinese people seem to be elated with the proposition and vision that President Xi and his new team of leadership has proposed, the world is eagerly waiting to know what exactly the Chinese Dream is all about and what impact it will have on the global arena.   In fact, the China dream is nothing new but continuation of China’s pursuit of peace, prosperity and new global order that Beijing has been advocating for years. But this vision and dream had not been pronounced as strongly in the past as it has done at present. In the past, China was more occupied with its internal affairs that included mode...

Yuba Nath Lamsal State Councilor and former foreign minister Yang Jiechi’s whirlwind visit to Nepal has been viewed as the important milestone in bilateral relationship and cooperation between Nepal and China. Apart from exchanging the language of goodwill and friendship, Yang offered something beyond what Nepalese people had earlier expected. During Yang’s visit, Nepal and China signed three important agreements. Two agreements are related with bilateral and technical cooperation and one is to provide support for the upcoming constituent assembly election. Under these agreements, China is to continue to provide the economic support to Nepal for the ongoing or earlier agreed projects and also for new areas of cooperation that includes assistance to build a training institution for Nepal Armed Police Force and also logistical support for Nepal’s upcoming Constituent Assembly election. On top of that, State Councilor Yang initiated much-awaited Ring Road upgrading project. The ...

Yuba Nath Lamsal Politics is said to be the art of possible. In other words politics is the practice of exploring the best out of many probabilities. The tryst with many probabilities in politics, may have given birth, rise and fall of many political ideologies, systems and regimes on this planet since human civilization germinated. In the period of more than two hundred years of Nepal’s turbulent history, many trials and experiments were made in our political front. We experienced and experimented systems and governments of different colors and nature in the past. But none of the previous systems lived up to popular expectations and eventually failed in the test of people’s court compelling people to seek better alternatives. In the quest of seeking better alternative, Nepalese people dumped Shah’s dynastical absolute monarchy, Rana’s oligarchy and multi-party system under monarchy into the trash of history. Now we are making yet another experiment of republican democracy...

Yuba Nath Lamsal  Book Review Nepali Politics In Crisis of Identity and Ideology Authored by Dr Gopal Siwakoti Published by Pairavi Prakashan Page-614 Price-495 This is a new book authored by Professor Dr Gopal Siwakoti, who is known widely in the academic field and the field of journalism in Nepal. He taught political science in the Tribhuvan University, country’s pioneer higher academic institution, for more than three decades. He was a professor before he retired a couple of year ago. Dr Siwakoti is equally known and revered in the field of journalism as he edited several journals and also worked as a columnist in some newspapers and journals. Although his health is feeble in his late sixties, he is active in writing on various pertinent issues like state restructuring, constitutionalism, political development and many contemporary issues. There are already more than two dozen books of political science to his credit and he has been continuously producin...