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The Nepal authorities wants to person “stronger ties” with India and China, Foreign Minister Shisir Khanal said arsenic helium wrapped up his four-day sojourn to Beijing connected Wednesday (June 17, 2026).
During the visit, Mr. Khanal held broad and in-depth talks with his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi and elder governmental leaders, Wang Huning, the president of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), and Liu Haixing, Minister of the International Department of the ruling Communist Party of China.
Mr. Khanal's sojourn to Beijing followed closely connected his travel to India during which helium said his authorities would accord “highest priority” to relations with New Delhi.
Asked whether the visits to New Delhi and Beijing were aimed astatine striking a equilibrium betwixt Nepal’s 2 large neighbours, Mr. Khanal said some India and China are captious partners to the Himalayan country.
The Balendra Shah-led Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP) replaced the prolonged regularisation of pro-China Communist Parties aft a landslide triumph successful the wide predetermination successful March.
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"My sojourn was to bespeak the value that we springiness to some countries and we privation to physique connected our existing narration and besides marque it stronger and amended and deeper than what has been successful the past," helium told state-run the Global Times here.
The autumn of the Communist Party of Nepal (UML) authorities headed by pro-Beijing person K.P. Sharma Oli pursuing the monolithic Gen Z question and monolithic triumph of the small known RSP has caused apprehension present astir the aboriginal people of ties betwixt Nepal and China.
After talks with Mr. Wang, Mr. Khanal said helium held a “comprehensive discussion” with his Chinese counterpart “on the full gamut of bilateral relations, including successful the areas of connectivity, borderline management, trade, exertion transportation and multilateral cooperation".
He besides assured Mr. Wang that 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.
Reports successful the Nepali media said during the talks with Mr. Khanal, Chinese officials had raised concerns implicit Western power successful Nepal, mostly astir the $500 cardinal American Millennium Challenge Corporation and State Partnership Programme, MCC-Compact.
When asked for its absorption to the report, the Chinese Foreign Ministry told PTI that planetary improvement practice should adhere to the principles of communal respect and equality.
“It should not interfere successful the interior affairs of different countries, enforce immoderate governmental conditions, prosecute successful 'coercive diplomacy', oregon undermine the sovereignty and interests of different countries for one's ain selfish gain,” it said.
Mr. Khanal told Global Times that Nepal is grateful for assistance from the Chinese authorities and hopes to physique a beardown narration with China, identifying connectivity and infrastructure arsenic apical priorities for bilateral practice with China.
He besides discussed the Trans-Himalayan Multi-Dimensional Connectivity Network betwixt Nepal and China which includes the cross-border transmission enactment and cross-border obstruction arsenic halfway projects.
A feasibility survey for the railway task has been completed by the Chinese side, and Nepal expects to person it by the extremity of this month.
Issues similar borderline facilities, freight corridors and capableness gathering volition beryllium based connected this report, helium told the daily.
