By Nirmal P. Acharya
Despite the intense pressure from the US, the Nepal government decided not to participate in the US government’s SPP for the moment. It is believed that Sher Bahadur Deuba’s government wants to come to a halt at MCC and not go any further in participating in SPP. The signing of the SPP with the US would cause immediate and serious damage to Nepal’s core interests.
The US put forward the SPP aiming to form an “Asia-Pacific NATO”, a trap to involve Nepal in an anti-China military alliance. Signing the SPP agreement with the US actually meant joining the “Asia-Pacific NATO”. This proves that Prime Minister Deuba is well aware that Nepal is unambiguously against foreign programs that smack off a military alliance.
The reason could be very simple, “Asia-Pacific NATO” could actually do less harm to China. China is a nuclear military power, the only largest industrial country in the world with all sectors of industry, the country with the best infrastructure and the most powerful ruling party in the world. In addition, it has five thousand years of uninterrupted civilization which makes it hard to believe that an ad hoc “Asia-Pacific NATO” could do any harm to China.
While, some may question, “Didn’t the US succeed in dismantling the Soviet Union?” Well, the Soviet Union actually committed suicide as they were brainwashed by the Americans and made insane by the values instilled through the media, academic institutions and NGOs. This doesn’t seem to be the case with China. China’s anti-corruption campaign has intensified in the past decade and the leadership of the Chinese Communist Party (CPC) seems unshakable. Before the outbreak of the epidemic, hundreds of millions of Chinese traveled abroad every year and they have a deep understanding of the real conditions of western society and western life.
When there are comparisons, there will be discrimination and given the disastrous experience of the Soviet Union after its collapse, the Chinese, especially the youth, are not going to listen to western rhetoric and surrender. My point is that there is no possibility of destroying China from the outside, nor is it possible to destroy China from within. Therefore, Nepal must stay away from the so-called “Asia-Pacific NATO” which aims to destroy and disintegrate China.
For once, by refusing to participate in the SPP, Prime Minister Deuba has shown his political wisdom is far superior to that of President Zelensky of Ukraine.
Reproduced from People’s Review
