{"id":88063,"date":"2019-10-14T18:19:47","date_gmt":"2019-10-14T12:49:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=10914"},"modified":"2019-10-14T18:19:47","modified_gmt":"2019-10-14T12:49:47","slug":"nepal-china-ink-road-connectivity-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/nepal-china-ink-road-connectivity-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Nepal, China ink road connectivity deal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>News:<\/strong>Chinese President is on a visit to Nepal.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Facts:<\/strong><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Key takeaways from the visit:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>India and China have decided to construct a 70-km (42-mile) rail link which will connect the Gyiron in Tibet with Nepal\u2019s capital city of Kathmandu.<\/li><li>A 28-km Kerung-Kathmandu road tunnel is also proposed to halve the distance between Kathmandu and Chinese border.<\/li><li>Chinese President has also promised to replenish the Arniko highway that links Kathmandu with Tatopani transit point.The highway was badly damaged in 2015 earthquake.<\/li><li>Nepal and China has also signed around 20 deals covering water supply, trade, traditional medicines.&nbsp;<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Why is Nepal increasing its interests in China?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Nepal is wedged between China and India.So being a landlocked nation, Nepal is trying to diversify its relations.<\/li><li>For Nepal,China serves as a potential supplier of goods and assistance that it badly needs in order to recover its economy.<\/li><li>The Madhesi agitation in 2015 had forced Nepal to explore trade links with China and reduce its long term dependence on India.<\/li><li>Lastly,another factor to increase the interest is China card which most of the south Asian countries are playing with India to gain the mileage in negotiations &amp; counter India\u2019s Big Brother approach.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Why China cannot replace India vis-\u00e0-vis Nepal?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>India has an advantage of geography on its side. Chinese rail and port connectivity projects are not very feasible owing to the difficult terrain.<\/li><li>The nearest Chinese ports will be over 3000 km away while Kolkata and Visakhapatnam ports which Nepal currently uses are relatively closer.<\/li><li>India and Nepal has deep linguistic &amp; cultural and religious affinity, whose trade or economic ties with China alone cannot entirely takeover.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News:Chinese President is on a visit to Nepal. Facts: Key takeaways from the visit: India and China have decided to construct a 70-km (42-mile) rail link which will connect the Gyiron in Tibet with Nepal\u2019s capital city of Kathmandu. A 28-km Kerung-Kathmandu road tunnel is also proposed to halve the distance between Kathmandu and Chinese&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/nepal-china-ink-road-connectivity-deal\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Nepal, China ink road connectivity deal<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[164],"tags":[2353,487,5775],"class_list":["post-88063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-relations-daily-factly-articles","tag-china","tag-nepal","tag-rail-road-link","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704888989},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88063\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}