it is very difficult to get past the communist doublespeak on the monarchy...
i am pretty sure nepali congress was functioning much like YSR congress in playacting as peace negotiators with the maoists while using them to prop up their corrupt extortionist leaders....... there were also rumors floated by the press that Gyanendra had killed king Birendra, although it would more likely have been china or maoists, (Dipendra could not possibly have shot himself in the back with an assault rifle). are they purposely vilifying this king as a china stooge to take the lens off the corrupt congress.... communists were the biggest party in the dissolved assembly........... ordinary nepalis seem to be sympathetic to monarchy and view congress almost same as we view our congress.....
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The Indian Express
By C RAJA MOHAN
NEW DELHI, FEBRUARY 6 - The announcement in the Nepali media last week that a bus service will soon be launched between Kathmandu and Lhasa was not news to South Block. For, an agreement on this was signed between Nepal and China last November.
But the public focus on the Lhasa-Kathmandu bus service might be an attempt to highlight Gyanendraâs options on playing the China card to shore up his royal coup dâetat.
Gyanendra has every reason to be happy with the Chinese reaction, which described the coup as an ââinternal affairââ of Nepal even as India condemned it.
Setting up India and China against each other has always been an option for Nepal and is dictated by geography.
No one did it more brazenly than King Mahendra, the father of the present monarch. If Mahendra trampled on Nepalâs first experiment with democracy in 1960, Gyanendra has now wiped out the second experiment, which began in 1990.
Gyanendra might also want to imitate his father in playing the China card against India. But Sino-Indian relations have moved a long way from the early 1960s. They never have been as good as they are today. (isn't it a peace of the graveyard!!!!)
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i am pretty sure nepali congress was functioning much like YSR congress in playacting as peace negotiators with the maoists while using them to prop up their corrupt extortionist leaders....... there were also rumors floated by the press that Gyanendra had killed king Birendra, although it would more likely have been china or maoists, (Dipendra could not possibly have shot himself in the back with an assault rifle). are they purposely vilifying this king as a china stooge to take the lens off the corrupt congress.... communists were the biggest party in the dissolved assembly........... ordinary nepalis seem to be sympathetic to monarchy and view congress almost same as we view our congress.....
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->India may have to deal with Gyanendra's China card option
The Indian Express
By C RAJA MOHAN
NEW DELHI, FEBRUARY 6 - The announcement in the Nepali media last week that a bus service will soon be launched between Kathmandu and Lhasa was not news to South Block. For, an agreement on this was signed between Nepal and China last November.
But the public focus on the Lhasa-Kathmandu bus service might be an attempt to highlight Gyanendraâs options on playing the China card to shore up his royal coup dâetat.
Gyanendra has every reason to be happy with the Chinese reaction, which described the coup as an ââinternal affairââ of Nepal even as India condemned it.
Setting up India and China against each other has always been an option for Nepal and is dictated by geography.
No one did it more brazenly than King Mahendra, the father of the present monarch. If Mahendra trampled on Nepalâs first experiment with democracy in 1960, Gyanendra has now wiped out the second experiment, which began in 1990.
Gyanendra might also want to imitate his father in playing the China card against India. But Sino-Indian relations have moved a long way from the early 1960s. They never have been as good as they are today. (isn't it a peace of the graveyard!!!!)
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