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By Nirmal P. Acharya
Our Prime Minister is finally paying a visit to India. It is customary for our prime ministers to visit India first when a new government is formed. This is widely seen as a result of Nepal’s geopolitical situation.
This is a time of great geopolitical realignment. Not long ago, the world witnessed the convening of the China-Central Asia Five Summit. The backdrop is the US withdrawal from Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia’s reconciliation with Iran, the Russia-Ukraine war, and the G7 summit held in Hiroshima, Japan.
It can be seen that American power is retreating from the heart of Eurasia. At the same time, it will strengthen the deployment and projection of forces on both wings of the Eurasian continent, that is, from the west wing to support Ukraine against Russia, and from the east wing to support Taiwan, Japan, South Korea, and the Philippines against China.
However, while the US has retreated from the heart of Eurasia, it has launched an MCC project in Nepal, which lies in the heart of Eurasia. So putting MCC in Nepal means a lot.
In my humble opinion, MCC is not simple in at least three aspects. One is that the MCC is the only Indo-Pacific Strategy project based in a non-maritime country. The second is that the MCC is not governed, audited by the Nepalese government, nor governed by Nepalese law, so it is a military enclave with an invisible but solid border. Third, everyone knows that it is in the strategic interests of the US to intensify and provoke conflicts between China and India. The mission of the MCC in Nepal is not difficult to know.
As a Nepali citizen, it is my duty to advise our PM to squeeze in some time during his visit to India to discuss the MCC with PM Modi.
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