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Triangular Strategic Approach
By KTM Metro Reporter
October 28, 2010: after attending the closing ceremony of the Shanghai Expo of 2010 upon arrival at the International Airport in Kathmandu from China on Tuesday, October 26, 2010, speaking to the reporters, Chairman of UCPN-Maoist Prachanda has said that the triangular strategic approach is necessary to reach the understanding among the three neighboring countries: Nepal, China and India. So, he has requested the Chinese delegation visiting India next week for talking to the Indian leaders to this end.
This is not the first time, Prachanda has said such thing publicly but this must be the first time he must have talked to the Chinese authorities and convinced them of the need for such a thing to bring all three countries closer to understanding each other rather than drifting away.
Currently, both China and India have been rivals for the supremacy over the region. China has made a tremendous progress in its economy and has been successful to claim the second largest economy after the US and moving fast to catch up the US but its GNP is still the half of the US. India is also moving very fast but slower than China. China and India have border dispute and their relations have been cool since the Dalai Lama: spiritual leader of Tibet took the shelter in India after the failed uprising against the Chinese rule in Tibet in 1959. They went to a brief war in 1962. Currently, they have been heading toward confrontation rather than mutual understanding. So, Chairman of UCPN-Maoist Prachanda might play a significant role in bringing both the giant countries to understanding.
Nepal and India also have several border areas in dispute but the main one is the Kalapani where India has occupied about 75 sq. km of Nepalese territory. For India, it is a strategic area where china, Nepal and India meet.
