By Nirmal P Acharya
I personally used to think for a long time that the United States was the ceiling of human civilization. Especially in 1991, when I saw the United States let the Soviet Union fall without firing a shot, my admiration for the United States reached a level where I could not shake my head.
In the last century, Nepal went through a struggle between taking the eastern way and taking the western way. In the 1970s, when China was still very poor and backward, it did its best to support Nepal by sponsoring a group of Nepalese young people to study in the best cities of China (like Shanghai) and the best universities (like Fudan University).
These Nepalese students stayed in China for several years at a time, and some even studied in China for more than 10 years. Although their treatment in China was obviously higher than that of ordinary Chinese citizens, they still saw the bottom card of China’s economic backwardness at that time and might be disappointed with the Chinese model in general.
As a result, the group of talented Nepali students who studied in China on Chinese scholarships in the 1970s generally tended to be pro-American and pro-west. Most of them sent their children to study in the west or Japan, not China. Because at the end of the last century, America and the west were at the height of their powers.
I would like to say that at the end of the last century, the mainstream of Nepali society chose to copy the western system.
Although western-style democracy has had little effect in Nepal, the mainstream has made a habit of worshipping the west.
The fact that the MCC has won the support of the government and Parliament on the premise that it will not be managed, audited and governed by the Nepalese government and Nepalese law shows that our political life has gone astray.
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