EAM Jaishankar gives a ‘reality check’ with examples on Nepal-China relations

Addressing a school student gathering in New Delhi, External Affairs Minister Dr S Jaishankar elaborated India-Nepal bilateral ties, on the question of rising relations of Nepal with China, EAM Jaishankar gives a reality check to the students on the topic.
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[@Rav01508]

India's biggest trade partner is china. India is allowed to do bussiness with china but nepal is not allowed to even talk with china? Every country has its needs and priorities. For example: India flips both side of the coin...it gets closer to russia as it needs military arms and energy supplies from russia. India gets closer to usa as well cuz they need american tech and are largest exports of indian IT manpower to the United States..a source of remittance. This is called geopolitics and one should not view nepal as being favouring one side or the other. It does best for what its ppl need. Same goes for india.

[@pralinkhanal]

Agree

[@joy-rx2fq]

Who are you are to tell the Nepal to stop talk with china. Only you have your interest but Nepal don't have its interest. Nepal can take the advantage from the both country india and china. Nepal is trying to decrease the dependency towards the india. Nepal also have its interest. Don't cry man

[@anujzoshi]

Well said

[@heyhelloheyhello5302]

@@joy-rx2fqnepals people don’t need passport to enter India. Indian should also charge work visa from Nepali people and make money. Anyways nepalis are taking advantage of India why not India take advantage of it. It was waste of India to build that pipeline . It would have been much better if Nepali people pay more for fuel. Anyways Nepal has nothing to offer other than watchmens. Let alone china take those watchmens 😂

[@sonofdevilbeast1007]

​​@@heyhelloheyhello5302 by the international law for the water from the river. upstream should get 60% and downstream should get 40% of water but Nepal is getting 4% and India 96%.nepal is selling electricity per unit 7rs to India, but when we have to buy from India India charge 11rs. don't you see this? Oh you only know what your godi Media tells you. We are buying things from India, and we are not getting for free, to sell the things you have to attract the buyer, make the way for buyers like other countries do. Thanks good we are sending watchmen, they work there, but your country is sending huge amounts of beggars, and they're destroying our country and tourism business

[@procras2nator]

S. Jaishanker is correct!!! Nepal being a sovereign nation has the right to trade to better its economy! If china provides cheaper petrol the pipeline will change and if china produces better quality food and merchandise than nepal will switch its trade from India to China. At the moment Chinese merchandises are gimmick and services are not trusted , and our food and culture has similarities with India so our friendship has not change! Nepal continues to hold good ties with India!! 🇳🇵 🕉️

[@sagaradhikari7906]

Don’t put Nepal in to the same bracket as Bangladesh and Maldives ! They are closest to us religiously, culturally and historically !

[@user-ob3uc6fd3d]

And Jaishanker was the one who initiated indian blockade in Nepal in 2015 when Nepal was recovering from earthquake

[@patrioticnepalese]

Becoz our Nepal government tried to eradicate our Madhesi community

[@Rav01508]

3 border blockade done by india During raja mahendra period In 1990 In 2015 India uses the nepal's weakness as being a landlocked to gain political advantage. The 2015 blockade was for nepal who wanted to remove the hindu rastra status and change into a secular country which the hindu nationalist BJP govt din't agree and wanted to give a lesson to nepali politicans for not obeying delhi's order

[@amritneupane1992]

​@@patrioticnepalese It was Modi government confirmed by Indian army

[@user-ob3uc6fd3d]

@@davikram1 can you explain how? You look like a patriotic Nepali. Much respect to that. The real reason behind the blockade is shown in the video link. Please review it and if you feel anything is missing or wrong do let me know. There were many indian interest of making current nepalese including the local madhesis the minority...

[@davikram1]

@@user-ob3uc6fd3d Brother there is no such things as minority in Nepal at current situation following last few years(Sonam wanchuk!?) and the things is if America will in place of India doing a blockage to change india's constitution what will be your reaction, while millions of citizens lost their home due to earthquake, injured wating for medicine or food / gas ? Isn't it fair that madeshi people had their own voice rather than taking Indian gov help in this case how people can accept them as true Nepali ?

[@prabinhudeomaharjan]

Nepal used to get oil from China truck by truck yes - why you ask? > cause India blocked all of its border to Nepal for a whole year during a 7.9 scale earthquake. When we fell to our knees due to a natural disaster, India decided to deliver the final blow. Thank goodness for China’s help with fuel.

[@RoseRose-gk6ku]

To have Plan B is very very very important.

[@vikram90900]

😂 because pahadi muji le madhesi lai right kinna diyan na

[@heyhelloheyhello5302]

Yeah you should stop all trades with India!! India doesn’t want new watchmen’s

[@Rav01508]

The BJP didn't agree with Nepal's new constitution leading to the 5-month blockade of Nepal, and it could be that an insecure Modi in 2024 will try to assert dominance again to signal detractors back home that he is still in charge.

[@pralinkhanal]

Good analysis from Jaishankar.He knows much better then people and media who try to mislead about India and Nepal.

[@beesaal]

As a nepali citizen i love india and indian people . And yes we can see lots of biharis selling panipuri like us nepali sales momo there.

[@walangchahangyelingden8252]

😂

[@AutriBanerjee]

double racism 😭

[@Vijay-xk3ew]

A China-funded international airport in Nepal opened more than a year ago but still hasn't received international flights. With loan repayments for the Pokhara airport due to start soon, many worry Nepal has fallen into a debt trap 🤫

[@beesaal]

@@Vijay-xk3ew no worries we have enough land to settle ,unlike you the biggest population of the world

[@Vijay-xk3ew]

@@beesaal why do i have to worry...it's your motherland....how you sell, use....it's your sole choice ....

[@thedebator1115]

The unannounced blockade India did to us right after the 2015 devastating earthquake has taught Nepali people to never trust Modi again. Every country has its right to have a plan B.

[@abidababi6544]

India is very good neighbor but only problem is they wear dhoti and sell pani puri bhele puri in nepal street

[@Red.bulldozer3]

At one time, most of indian neighbours totally depended on india for fuel , food and essentials supplies. The indians misused this and arm twisted countries which is not aligned to it. Then enter the dragon, china which quickly gave 2nd help line destroying the indian monopoly on its neighbours. Now even tiny maldives showing middle finger to india 😂

[@manojparajuli6826]

The relationship between India and Nepal will always remain strong....

[@nc01sadh]

Nepal is closer to India than China. The free border movement between two countries binds the relationship strong. Also, linguistically Nepal and India are same.[ Both use the Devanagari script]. Nepal wants to expand trade relations with China, to uplift Nepalese from poverty and improve standards of living. Don't worry, no country can replace Nepal-india relations. I can vouch that more than 80% of Nepalese have a favourable view towards india. Its a relationship like nail-to-a-skin. There is a unresolved boundary dispute, which has been a sore point of contention in relations, otherwise it is pretty strong and will remain strong for the unforeseeable future.

[@letters79587]

Incredible memory.

[@patrioticnepalese]

We love S Jaishankar & his diplomacy. Much love & respect from Nepal 🇳🇵🤝🇮🇳

[@user-sz5rc6im9l]

😃😃Aeh

[@360nep]

No we don't. And we have never appreciated India's foreign policy.

[@prabinhudeomaharjan]

Sorry bro, India has always bullied Nepal. Remember the earthquake? They blocked all its borders for a year and how the entire nation had to suffer because of it

[@kiranthapa6392]

No we don't. And we have never appreciated India's foreign policy.

[@utsav_sapkota]

@@prabinhudeomaharjan There are two narratives to this.. 1. Bihari people who reside in Nepal conducted the blockade because of the new amendment in our constitution of not providing lineage based citizenship and even for the spouse, they should've waited for at least 7 years period to get it. 2. India did not welcome our constitution while rest of the countries congratulated Nepal. India wished some changes in our constitutional amendment, couldn't have it, thus the blockade as retaliation to not obliging to India.

[@MegaGehendra]

Whoever comes to power in our country, WE people of Nepal are always with INDIA, our blood brothers. Jay Nepal, JAY HIND

[@tantrichill192]

You are ...not us.

[@MegaGehendra]

@@tantrichill192 coz, you are anti-india!!!. RIGHT?

[@prodigy_jjt]

❤ 🤝 Jay Nepal

[@tantrichill192]

@@MegaGehendra We are anti oppression. If you know the history, you will know.

[@arjunghimire8728]

Nepal never go away from India ❤ Nepal always with our good friend India

[@soulinmyparadise]

Best diplomat ever born! India’s pride.❤ 🇮🇳

[@prakashman1]

jayashankerji seems has learnt the hard lesion. bullying nepal backfires. nepal can not be won by bullying. ..... he is/has been the main beaurocrate \ politician responsible for degenerating bilateral relations with nepal. his every actions and remarks has hurt nepal. ..... this time he spoke like a real diplomat. nepal appreciates the change in tone.

[@user-ic8gl7qr3m]

Nepali here, we do not favor any of the country more, to get sustainable advantage we need to balance the relation between China , India and USA equally. In terms of people whole Indian culture is similar to us and the open border definitely gives seamless pathway to travel between country. Sometimes India causes us troble with limiting supply of petroleum and salt, that is why we need to open the boarder to China as well.

[@tantrichill192]

Not the whole population of Nepal shares the same culture with Indians, We are Himali tribes and Mongoloid race. A lot different than Indo Aryan race, We are not Indian descendant. We speak what's in our mind and will not be afraid to speak. We are not in favor of Indian aggression, bullying and illegally occupying our land. India is scapegoating and blaming Nepal being friendly with China and showing no intention to return our land.

[@kappa633]

First look at your trade with China. India is Chinas biggest trading partner so stop bullshitting. We are not in a cold war everyone is doing business where it seems fit and earning. Nepal needs to develop at all cost its getting too late for nepal all youths have left country population is getting old. Nepal has to develop within this decade or its too late for nepal. That is why Nepal will seek partnership with any country to seek development so what is the problem if we have relation with china nepal is a neighbour. What kind of question is this from reporter? What is this mentality that nepal can’t have relation with china?

[@shankarbalakrishnan2360]

If i was given one good friend it will be one who understands the 195 countries❤❤🎉🎉 we don't need more countries just less debt and more gdp

[@Surila-yg2do]

India 🇮🇳❤️🇳🇵Nepal ❤❤

[@PdlNirmal]

Dear indian don't believe your news channel nepal is not against any of you india and china like india balancing power grid between Russia and Usa and nepal and india share same culture same script and religion too we have open borders and our currency is also related

[@gauravgaurav4328]

Yup if this is the case it would be good Doing trade in a such a way that you can return the expenses money you took will be better than taking tremendous amount of loan which is more than country's gdp would be fatal especially with China India's trade is also more with China as our citizen is not supporting complete ban of China too so we know the consequence more. China is dangerous man

[@ujblondon]

You guys got a smart n intelligent FM...

[@eagerdip8086]

when I visited India..i was often asked why Tilting towards China?😂😂😂 Young Indians plz visit Nepal.,see the ground scenario

[@hiraxerstaman6167]

Title should be India-Nepal Relation Reality Check but Economic Times like to make headlines to diffuse a dispute. And next thing why on earth Indian students would like to dip into somebody else’s country’s internal affairs?? Good to hear good from Jayshankhar though !!

[@hemantkunwar4770]

Jaishanker Love you to show the real fact of strong best relationship between India and Nepal. But I am shocked how dirty minded media is there India !❤

[@bipinbhatta6123]

I hate it when geopolitics ruins hundreds of year old relation, and media hyping it up. I wish our country(Nepal) had good politicians who can maintain good relations with every country. But,we humans can't live without disputes. Its in our nature.

[@newtondai8963]

Well said honourable Minister

[@ramkrishnadhakal9135]

India has good relation with nepal .we r brother

[@prakashman1]

@prakashman1 1 second ago jayashankerji seems has learnt the hard lesion. bullying nepal backfires. nepal can not be won by bullying. ..... he is/has been the main beaurocrate \ politician responsible for degenerating bilateral relations with nepal. his every actions and remarks has hurt nepal. ..... this time he spoke like a real diplomat. nepal appreciates the change in tone

[@GTFO_0]

True lmao he thinks we are small nations and they can bully us

[@bisnubhai9078]

Wish u all besh varat

[@sureshbhatt8322]

Bharat is our mitrarastra and it will always be

[@bisnubhai9078]

❤

[@anjalaryal3401]

As a nepali citizenship india did nothing toour country for development but china is always support for development in nepal as a nepali citizenship i support china not a india

[@vikram90900]

😂just like pokhara airport loan 😂 fucked development and bhairahawa airport 😂 fucked development 😂🤣 don't worry after 5-7 years we realized how china is good Nepal development just like Bangladesh Pakistan Maldives srilanka 😂

[@vikram90900]

We dont need nepal we only need independent terai for madhesi people ❤

[@skshrest]

it is not well researched or well thought out question? When you have opportunity to ask question to such esteemed person one would expect the questioner to better prepared..

[@SS-ge3mn]

There is no wrong in nepal maintaining feiendly diplomatic relations with its neighbors , just as india plays diplomatic realtion between enemies us and russia , and its relations between iran and israel , nepal also has the right to maintain diplomatic relation with its neighboring for their countries welfare

[@Baral__Aayush]

We rather be Chinese then maintain good relationship with India

[@tsubp1005]

Mr.jaishankar , there was shortage of petrol in Nepal in 2015 because right after the Great Earthquake , India imposed economic sanction and border closure and did not allow essential commodities to enter Nepal. The petrol line is yet another trump card India is playing with Nepal for future. It will use that to manipulate everything they want their way. Rest of the things like Electricity grid for transmission of electricity , railroads , checkpoint they are all mutual. JS is right in saying that Nepal does the biggest trade with India , Nepal gives its border Indian towns business of US dollar 7 billion USD every year. Nepal and India depend on each other and its just not trade, Every drop of water that goes into Indians comes down from thousands rivers and its tributaries that originate in NEPAL. Nepal in many ways is a life giver ! something that politicians like Jai Shankar will take the credit the other way round !! Stupid politicians

[@dineshshrestha2323]

Its shoudnt be prblm if Nepal china tie goes well for India it should not b big concern

[@arjun10able]

If you put Indian n Chinese food Nepali will definitely choose Indian food 🤷 i m Nepali but media , politics is bringing teardown between us. We just want to be neutral with big countries so stop hating each other.

[@tsubp1005]

Thats because you have never tasted authentic Chinese food.

[@Herxh428]

Shut up i love chowmein momo it's chinese food 😂

[@tantrichill192]

Are you speaking for yourself, Bollywood ball dancer??

[@aashishtamrakar986]

Only that corrupt guy is with them people are with you

[@dahal.bibek99]

Who India think themselves as? We must keep our relation with china to develop faster.... Being in relation with india is curse for the development of our country

[@ashokkarki6738]

Nepal has own geopolitics why india is trying to interfere.

[@bideybikrammalla5057]

India always wanted Nepal to become as Sikkim and Bhutan thats Sin one Day They Will Pay for it.. jai Shree Ram

[@shwetkumar2]

The border dispute with Nepal, and few years ago in Oli's tenure things were too haywire, in terms of trade, culture, Indian diaspora or the rights issues of people with indian origin there's marriage rights and all stuff. etc So, we can say there are some bumps now with the increasing involvement of China.

[@trekkingguidenepal9794]

Please free lipulek,kalapani then ties will itself better than ever with India🙏

[@karkeeadesh3967]

S. Jaishankar gave good advice. don't believe everything you read

[@kisnar22]

chain is big power and india is big power. nepali is big grokha. fritght power. maby see oneday who is the big power

[@360nep]

We will be moving towards China, We might have certain similarities but Indian politicians used that as proxy to disturb Nepali politics. We might be small but we have always had important role in geo politics. If Indian do not leave our lands in Lipulek, we will go against India. And after Agnipath we have stopped Gorkha recruitment which will eventually be transferred to Chinese Army.

[@SajanRaii400]

🇳🇵🇨🇳

[@MrJiwan430]

Youth need to be clear that this is part of dirty politics. If you know about pro-china, pro-india concept u won't ask this question. We Nepali and Indian are 90% common. This dirty politics and media manipulating information lead to the conflict among our thoughts. We don't need to rely on a few sources of information or news about such questions to be clear. 🇮🇳🇳🇵🫂🕊️✅. Moreover, In Nepal the political power is with the pro-china Party so it is normal to ignore India by those people who are representing Nepal 😢 this leads to conflict among people if they don't understand.

[@Dailyreaction8848]

Bad foreign policy from india to Nepal

[@rishavsharma2349]

This Indian obsession over Nepal china relationship is harmful to both India and Nepal. First of all, the natural god-given 'personality' of Nepal is a synchrony between Indian and Chinese civilizations. Like Momo: Chinese dumplings with Indic spices. Or our temples: Hindu gods and goddesses in Pagoda architecture. Nepal will only thrieve as Nepal if we play our god-given roles right. Secondly, India-Nepal relationship is solid at people to people level. We buy sugar and salt at your borderside towns. If we get very sick, we have to go to AIIMS and Apollo. And we watch Bollywood all the time. China is a good neighbour but it is like a distant rich neighbour living behind high walls. You cant go there when you are sick. You cant go there one afternoon, watch a movie, eat chaat and come back. Indian Government/media's over indulgence and lectures over Nepal China relationship builds mistrust among Nepalis. We are a sovereign nation after all. We must build our diplomacy ourselves. When India-Nepal-China relationship stays healthy, China cannot replace the strong people to people relationship between Nepal and India. If India insists on playing a dominating Big Brother, Nepal will eventually switch to China's orbit. At best, Nepal can be a case study for India in regards to what improved relationship China might bring. At worst, India will continue dictating Nepali politics. Nepal will continue paying lip service to Nepal-China relationship. And nobody gains anything. (Which is the status quo)

[@jeevanbhandari8734]

First visit nepal and then make perception about nepal

[@dreamadventure8220]

BJP has failed India in its foreign policy. decades of hard work all going in vein

[@watssssuppppppp]

india is becoming more lonely.

[@Ganiloo65]

😆😆😆

[@gorkhasoldier-jm2xx]

Godi media 😹🚮 will never tell the truth 😆🗣️

[@kunjanmaleku]

How many times have India sanctioned Nepal? Did you notice this. Nepal is not slave of India that tell what to do or what not to do. As as a Sovereign nation Nepal should balance powers between both China and India.

[@arnabdutta9326]

Ok, but still lipulekh and kalapani is part of India🇮🇳

[@Herxh428]

your mother is my wife

[@arnabdutta9326]

@@Herxh428 Nice try. Still lipulekh and Kalapani are a part of India.

[@Herxh428]

@@arnabdutta9326 Just like arunachal pradesh is part of china .

[@jareedlooper4793]

Dhoti

[@JohnnyRotten-uf6xw]

topi.

[@SSumit225]

TERI MAA AUR BHEHEN APNE BADAN KO DHOTI SE HE DHAKTI HAI

[@ritika5363]

Yeah , a very good and traditional costume ❤

[@patrioticnepalese]

Typical racist boy

[@gm-bhuwan9753]

@@ritika5363 doti

[@VinodKumar-ru8jc]

It didn't take Hindus to convert to Islam. Over a period of 1500 years, they wanted to separate from mainland India. We face terrorism everyday from Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh. Same blood, same people, same cultures...? Nobody's a friend or a bhai behen or beta beti. India needs to rise on own like ISRAEL.

[@VinodKumar-ru8jc]

Just because Nepal is Hindu does not mean they are good neighbors. But they never were on our side. A small country always uses a bigger country against another bigger country. Nobody is dangerous than those who are blood related and marriage related.

[@gm-bhuwan9753]

dhoti

[@Rav01508]

India's biggest trade partner is china. India is allowed to do bussiness with china but nepal is not allowed to even talk with china? Every country has its needs and priorities. For example: India flips both side of the coin...it gets closer to russia as it needs military arms and energy supplies from russia. India gets closer to usa as well cuz they need american tech and are largest exports of indian IT manpower to the United States..a source of remittance. This is called geopolitics and one should not view nepal as being favouring one side or the other. It does best for what its ppl need. Same goes for india.

[@amritneupane1992]

India is not Hindu

[@hiraxerstaman6167]

Title should be India-Nepal Relation Reality Check but Economic Times like to make headlines to diffuse a dispute. And next thing why on earth Indian students would like to dip into somebody else’s country’s internal affairs?? Good to hear good from Jayshankhar though !!