Lalitpur, Nov. 18
Chairman of the National Assembly Ganesh Prasad Timilsina
has said that Nepal should need a leadership that can strike a balance in
relations with India and China.
Speaking at a talk programme on 'The new leadership of the
CPC and influence on world order' organised on Thursday by the Alliance for Social Transformation and Human
Rights Assurance (ASTHA), he stressed the need for abandoning the political
culture of asking votes with the agenda of proximity with certain countries.
"People should know the agenda of political parties
well before voting in the elections and electing a good leader," he said.
Chairman Timilsina was of the view that there should be an
objective assessment of the leaders including the prime ministers, and
suggested a mechanism to transfer the knowledge and good traits of leadership.
Professor of international affairs and former head of the
Department of International Relations and Diplomacy at the Tribhuvan
University, Dr. Khadga KC said that a new cold war between China and the USA is
in offing as the experts of international affairs across the globe say.
Programmes like the Indo-Pacific Strategy or QUAD to
encircle China would further worsen the crisis, he said while maintaining that
the 2008 financial crash, rising inequality, epidemic and other crises have
cast doubt on the superiority of the American economic model.
"The Chinese leadership has indicated that it would use
any means to contain the coercive powers against the integrity of China and its
'One China Policy'. During the coronavirus pandemic, it has also shown that
strong public institutions not private ones are helpful during the disasters
and national crisis," said Prof. KC while presenting a paper at the
programme.
However, he maintained that dubious role/position of China
in Russian invasion of Ukraine would damage the Chinese image abroad.
Published in The Rising Nepal daily on 19 November 2022.
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