THIRD PHASE OF CHINA'S ‘COLONISE NEPAL' GREAT GAME AT PLAY

Anti-Indianism is the core theme, with Beijing trying to establish its ‘strategic depth’ over Kathmandu.

- MAYANK KUMAR

The third phase of China's grand plan to “colonize Nepal” is at play in Kathmandu with anti-Indianism as its core theme. Many argue that the ruling elites of Kathmandu valley who prop up the anti-India sentiments to showcase that they are Nepali nationalists are in the great game of realpolitik becoming a tool into the hands of Beijing who had been trying to compete with New Delhi and is working on a longterm plan to overthrow India as Nepal's historical, spiritual and economical partner since ages and establish its own domination in the Himalayan kingdom. The Sunday Guardian tried to trace how the Chinese great game is at play in Nepal by talking to two former Deputy Prime Ministers of Nepal, members of the erstwhile royal family of the Himalayan Kingdom, and experts to understand the various stages of this ploy, which ultimately aims to colonize Nepal and establish its domination over the Himalayan Kingdom. Nepal's former Deputy Prime Minister and senior leader Rajendra Mahato told The Sunday Guardian: “A section of Nepal's power elites are playing into the foreign hands who want to disturb Nepal's special relationship with India. People like us who speak the truth that the India-Nepal relationship cannot be replaced by any partnership had been branded as anti-Nepal and as Indian by them as they are hand in glove with the foreign powers which are trying to exert its own influence. Another former deputy Prime Minister Upendra Yadav told the same thing to The Sunday Guardian from Kathmandu.