Dinesh Bhattarai

Nepal's foreign policy prioritizes maintaining strong ties with its immediate neighbors, India and China. Nepal’s close relations with India are independent of its growing relations with China. Prime Minister Oli’s decision to visit China, seen as a deviation from the traditional practic...

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi chose Russia for his first bilateral visit (July 8-9) in his third term. This is Modi’s first visit to Moscow since 2015. He had visited Vladivostok in September 2019 for the Eastern Economic Forum.

South Asia faces an uncertain future without substantial regional cooperation.

More than 70 countries, including the oldest democracy, the United States of America, and the largest democracy, India, with a combined population of over 4 billion across different continents, have elections in 2024. Elections in the USA and India are of paramount importance and will have a disprop...

The fifteenth BRICS summit, the first in-person gathering since the COVID-19 outbreak in 2019, took place in Johannesburg, South Africa, from August 22nd to 24th. This summit was part of a series initiated in 2009 in Yekaterinburg, Russia. It gained more global attention than previous summits, occur...

Domestic and foreign policy problems are often inseparable. A nation is no stronger abroad than it is at home. The strength of foreign policy is based on sound and strong domestic policies. The strength abroad comes from the strength at home.

Ukraine war and attendant crises have shown that world peace and security have come to be closely connected to energy/power market. This makes Nepal’s abundant water resources tied to security and stability in the larger context. Climate policy needs to be integrated in foreign policy and included i...

Relations between Kathmandu and Washington over the past seven decades have grown steadily covering a wide range of cooperation. The exchange of visits at senior officials’ level has been a regular feature in the bilateral relation.

China now heads four of the UN’s 15 Specialized Agencies including the Food and Agriculture Organization, International Telecommunication Union, United Nations Industrial Development, and International Civil Aviation Organization. As the US suspended funding to the WHO in 2020, China promised $2 bil...

The fall of Afghanistan to the Taliban carries enormous consequences for South Asia and beyond. Destabilization could start from there with Afghanistan once again becoming a safe haven for extremists working with their counterparts across the border in Pakistan. Developments in Afghanistan could sig...