TITLE:
Nepal-China Security Issue in the Context of Belt and Road Program Implementation
AUTHORS:
Buddhi Prasad Sharma
KEYWORDS:
Nepal-China Security Cooperation, Belt and Road, Great Powers’ Interest, Strategic Cooperation, One-China Policy, Increasing Exchanges
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Social Sciences,
Vol.9 No.8,
August
6,
2021
ABSTRACT: Nepal-China security cooperation is in a progressing way since some
years. Defense cooperation on multiple spheres could display the accumulative
understanding and coherence on
political-security realm. Due to the geo-security aspect, China has been
concerned on its bordering region with Nepal. Defense cooperation since 2015
has been growing exponentially with technical supports, exchanges and joint
training. This paper concludes that security issue between Nepal and China is
the prominently significant agenda on bilateral cooperation. It is also
concomitant with great powers interest in South Asia. Some section of security
experts in Nepal opined that with the establishment of Republic system, China
searched established state power to foster continues collaboration in Nepal. In
course of it, China found Nepal’s security agencies a trustful for enhancing
cooperation as a stable state power and institutions. Peace and stability in
the geo-strategically significant Nepal definitely contribute for the entire
region and help to reduce regional politico-security imbalance, confrontation and zero-some
game. Nepal-China constructive defense cooperation depends on the seriousness,
pragmatism and rational efforts of two countries’ national leadership. Belt and
Road Initiative (BRI) has given opportunity
for two countries to reach at consensus on common issues and execute
policies regarding the broader area of partnership. This research has used
“comprehensive approach” as a
theoretical framework and is based on qualitative study, and documents/archive
study and interview tools are used for data collection.