China's Belt & Road Initiative : Prospect Of Connectivity Building In Nepal
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Department Of International Relation & Diplomacy
Abstract
In today's globalized world, connectivity is essential to the country like Nepal,
relatively poor, small and landlocked compared to two giant countries located
between China and India. China as a second largest economy in the world has
introduced Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) that supposed to connect countries along
the road through six economic corridors. There are five major areas in BRI that
consists of promotion of policy coordination, connectivity, unimpeded trade, financial
integration and people to people relations. While Nepal is a member of BRI, expects
to get connected and improve or build infrastructures and steer to from least
developed country to developing country.
The title of the research is China's Belt & Road Initiative: Prospect of
Connectivity Building in Nepal. The research try to seek connectivity aspects
critically in terms of various dimensions ranging from railway, road way, cross-
border transmission line to high speed internet connection. Besides that, it also
includes trade, tourism, and technology transfer, socio-cultural, economic and
institutional prospects.
The research has been solely based on contextual secondary sources. Recently
published authentic books and Journals have been used to support the topic. It also
aims to answer the research questions by finding some of the research gap on the
topic. The research attempts to review Chinese foreign policy and its connection with
BRI. The major finding of the research is that connectivity is the only possible way to
grasp the opportunities for Nepal's overall development but she should be aware of
the risks it may bring along with it.