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Updated: Feb 10, 2022 13:17 IST
Kathmandu [Nepal], February 10 (ANI): Nepal is falling into the Chinese debt trap through vaccine diplomacy amid COVID-19 as Beijing is exploiting Kathmandu’s helplessness to have control over its natural resources and even on its foreign policy.
Nepal joined a long list of countries that have been promised the Chinese “Magic Bullet” in the fight against COVID-19 after the world’s power nation started developing the vaccines.
With vaccines coming from countries like India, the USA, Japan and the UK, China has surpassed them with large differences providing as many as six million doses of the vaccine, Nepal‘s Pardafas News reported.
With vaccine diplomacy, China is trying to gain a foothold in the political and economic spheres in Nepal and also nudging its way into Nepal by claiming Nepalese territory as Chinese on one hand and is trying to cower down the protests by dangling the carrot of the vaccine, Pardafas News reported.
Nepal, a landlocked country dependent on tourism has seen a fall in its economy owing to the COVID-19 related restrictions and travel bans. The government, which saw inoculation as an elixir of all the miseries, started an inoculation drive to bring the economy back on track.
According to Pardafas News, China‘s vaccine diplomacy has also kicked in at a time when there are widespread protests in Nepal…
