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China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi and his Nepalese counterpart Shisir Khanal held “comprehensive talks” covering the full gamut of bilateral ties, including borderline management, connectivity and trade.
Mr. Khanal arrived successful Beijing connected a four-day sojourn connected June 14 aft his weeklong travel to India.
After helium met with Mr. Wang Yi connected Monday (June 15, 2026), Mr. Khanal said successful a station connected X, “We held a broad treatment connected the full gamut of bilateral relations, including successful the areas of connectivity, borderline management, trade, exertion transportation and multilateral cooperation.”
“We besides exchanged views connected expanding people-to-people ties and reaffirmed shared committedness to further strengthening Nepal-China relations for the communal payment of our 2 countries,” helium said.
At the meeting, Mr. Wang Yi said China has ever placed its relations with Nepal successful an important presumption successful its neighbourhood diplomacy and pursues a affable argumentation toward each Nepalese people.
China will, arsenic always, enactment Nepal successful safeguarding its nationalist sovereignty, independency and territorial integrity, and successful exploring a improvement way suited to its ain nationalist conditions, Mr. Wang Yi said, according to a property merchandise by the Chinese Foreign Ministry connected Monday (June 15, 2026).
Besides Mr. Wang Yi, Mr. Khanal besides met Mr. Wang Huning, the influential Chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference and Liu Haixing, Minister of the International Department of the ruling Communist Party of China.
Discussions connected assorted aspects of bilateral ties, including investment, tourism, governmental exchanges and people-to-people ties, took spot successful Mr. Khanal’s abstracted meetings with Mr. Wang Huning and Liu Haixing.
In a station connected X, Mr. Khanal said helium appreciates Mr. Wang Huning’s “strong committedness to deepening long-standing relationship betwixt the 2 countries”.
The visiting Foreign Minister was besides fixed a briefing astatine the Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, which specialises successful countering the Dalai Lama’s spiritual power successful the Himalayan region.
Mr. Khanal’s sojourn to Beijing is regarded arsenic important arsenic some countries were expected to reset the relations aft the monolithic triumph of the caller Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP) this year, ending the prolonged regularisation of leaders of Nepal’s Communist parties, K.P. Sharma Oli and Pushpa Kamal Dahal ‘Prachanda’, who sought to determination Kathmandu person to Beijing, distant from India.
The RSP’s triumph successful the wide elections marked an extremity to the dominance of the communist parties, which gained governmental prominence aft the abolition of the monarchy successful Nepal successful 2008.
Both Prachanda and Oli, who became premier ministers thrice each since 2008, advocated person governmental and economical ties with China and played a cardinal relation successful helping Beijing beforehand its power successful Nepal with measures similar the Belt and Road Initiative.
Speaking astatine the gathering with Mr. Khanal, Mr. Wang Yi said China is consenting to enactment with Nepal to jointly beforehand the high-quality ‘Belt and Road cooperation’, absorption connected collaboration successful powerfulness grids, highways, borderline ports and aviation, and assistance Nepal alteration from a “land-locked state into a land-linked country”.
He called connected some sides to afloat utilise assorted practice platforms and mechanisms, deepen applicable cooperation, and beforehand taste exchanges.
China encourages its enterprises to put and bash concern successful Nepal, and hopes that the Nepalese broadside volition supply a much equitable and transparent concern environment, helium added.
Mr. Khanal expressed gratitude for China’s long-standing enactment for Nepal’s nationalist improvement and betterment of people’s livelihoods, noting that Beijing has ever treated Kathmandu arsenic an adjacent and respected its sovereignty and independence, state-run Xinhua quality bureau reported.
Nepal remains firmly committed to the one-China policy, supports China’s efforts to execute implicit reunification, and volition ne'er let immoderate forces to usage Nepal’s territory to undermine China’s interests, Mr. Khanal said.
The study quoted Mr. Khanal arsenic saying that China’s improvement presents opportunities for Nepal, and the Himalayan federation welcomes concern from China and is consenting to supply its enterprises with a fair, law-based, and affable concern environment.
