With a concern over the recent political crisis in Nepal following the dissolution of the House of Representatives, a high-level Chinese Communist Party (CCP) delegation arrived in Kathmandu and started marathon meetings with the top leadership of the Himalayan nation, Nepal. Guo Yezhou, Vice Minister of the CPC, held talks with President Bidhya Devi Bhandari and Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli on Sunday evening.
Oli's Foreign Affairs Advisor Rajan Bhattarai has informed that Guo visited the Prime Minister on Sunday night even though the meeting was said to have been scheduled for Monday. However, no information was revealed about the talks in two hour meeting. The four-member CPC delegation also held a meeting with President Bhandari at the Shital Niwas during which they held talks on bilateral issues and the row within the ruling Nepal Communist Party (NCP). The same team is to meet top leaders of the NCP, as well as of the opposition Nepali Congress.
The experts say the Chinese delegation comes on the heels of a vertical split in the ruling NCP which is believed to have been formed with a lot of efforts by the Chinese in May 2018. Months before Oli's CPN-UML and Pushpa Kamal Dahal's CPN (Maoist Centre) announced the formation of the NCP which gathered huge victory in the elections, a Chinese delegation led by Gou had visited Kathmandu in February 2018. Chinese concerns, however, had started to grow after a flurry of visits from India with which Oli had taken a hostile approach over border issues.
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