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IN SEARCH OF NEPAL’S PLACE BETWEEN AN ELEPHANT AND A DRAGON

It’s too evident that there’s no quick fix to Nepal’s economic problems in this present political chaos and turmoil that this country has been hit for more than 15 years. Even then, should we be as much downbeat about the place of this country between these two Asian giants? Who does not agree?—I for one!

For one thing, it’s a sine qua non to get rid of a present stinker of a problem by undertaking a radical makeover of the country, and the first and the foremost step to be taken is to get out of communist clutches, because communism means the death of individual initiatives to boost the commercial activities of any kind.

A better thing on balance, why pick on commies?

I’ve no intention to evade this issue. As such I’ve been for long time trying to understand as to how other buffer states like Nepal took profit from such queer situations. I’ve now come to the conclusion that there’re as many ways and means as there’re creative and intellectual resources all disseminated throughout the country. These’re the real treasure of Nepal and they only require to be provided incentives for improving their stronghold on different facet of international commerce.

I’m making allusion to the past history of Nepal when the jewellers, the manufactures of tools and household utensils and retail traders used to make businesses with the Tibetans by travelling all over to Lassa before the Chinese takeover of Tibet in 1950.

On the other end, Nepalese had almost the trade monopoly of household utensils in Sikkim, in Darjeeling districts as well as in Bhutan and Assam regions of India.

Who dares wins! All things considered, let us try to recapitulate what these two neighbors are doing in today’s global economy?

What we know is that China is serving as a workshop of the world and India as its back office thru’ outresourcing. These abovementioned countries are hastening in building a huge middle class and eradicating hunger and poverty that have been for centuries the curse of Asia in the past.

It’s a safe bet that in some 15 to 20 years China and India could become two economic superpowers thanks to the GDP engendered by the astronomical number of populations but in an individual basis both of them are far behind, almost 25 to 30 times of difference in average minimum wages compared to the West.

For the time being these two countries are imprisoned in the current role of copyist for the West. How long China could stay passively as a copyist country which in the past gave mankind paper, printing, the gunpowder and compass? Is China ready to challenge the West without creativity of its own?

There’re almost 750,000 Chinese who are working in African continents making a trade surplus of $55bn. Now the Africans are becoming more and more hostile to their presence as the immigrants who came as investors are occupying the local jobs.

On the other hand, India is the country that provided mankind with numeration ciphers and also ‘0’ in the past. Let us in turn not forget, albeit Buddha was born in Nepal the non-violence was at first propagated by Mahavira, the predicator of Jainism in India, who’s almost the contemporary of Buddha. And it’s revived by Gandhi by making it one of the most dreadful political weapons of late.

As of now, let us come down to their shortcomings.

Especially the USA thinks that in the not too distant future China could become both economic and military superpower. To be superpower however it’s essential to have highly autonomous technological capacity, to begin with, as well as to be extremely swift to innovate industry according to the sudden switchover of conjuncture which China is incapable to handle so forth. Plus China lacks severely the financial institutions and superstructure as in the Western markets.

Furthermore, China takes no account of the ecological disaster caused by over 70% of charcoal consumption to meet the energy demands, aggravating pollution and global warming day by day. As a consequence the Himalayan mountains are getting stripped off from the snows that melt away causing flooding in both Chinese and Indian rivers drowning at the same time more than half of Bangladesh especially the site of Sunderban shores in the Gulf of Bengal.

It’s been put in evidence that there’re two Chinas that coexist; the modern China displayed to foreigners and the hidden China, where it seems fossilized reminding imperatively the gloom and doom of Mao’s regime.

In Indian continent the most glaring and deep-rooted problem is that of poor infrastructure and hygienic negligence. It’s been estimated that this country needs at least $13bn / year to construct a decent infrastructure to provide with asphalted highways and running water in every house or apartment of this vast country during more or less 20 years of time.

Also, don’t forget the societal drawbacks created by age-old caste system and the slums in the vicinity of Delhi, Bombay, Calcutta and Madras etc...It makes India reluctant to be not at all made as the rest of the world.

In light of what I’ve written hereupon, I’m nevertheless confident that Nepal has the capacity to get over the challenge.

It’s at least a practical expression of my goodwill and sincerity.

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