KP Sharma Oli, Prime Minister of Nepal and leader of Communist Party of Nepal, is in unmanageable crisis right now. A faction in his own party, led by former PM and Maoist sympathizer Pushpa Kamal Dahal (Prachanda), wants him to resign.

He is losing his support on the ground over various governance issues. China has also reportedly annexed the Rui village of Nepal against which opposition parties have protested. According to reports, China has gradually made inroads into several Nepalese territories with an ulterior aim to seize complete control.

Amidst the crisis, Oli once again targetted India to gather sympathies. On June 28, he alleged that meetings were organised in the New Delhi to remove him from the post of PM. This statement, however, backfired. A 44-member standing committee meeting was organised two days later in which chorus for his exit became louder. The Himalayan Times, leading Nepali daily, has reported that “party co-chair Pushpa Kamal Dahal asked PM Oli to quit owing to the government’s gross and all-around incompetence.”&nbsp;

It is a long-standing policy of India not to interfere in the domestic politics of any other nation. Oli’s statement can create mistrust and suspicion towards India among common Nepalese people. Consequently,&nbsp;if Oli is removed then India will be considered an invisible factor behind it.&nbsp;

To cover his incompetence, Oli has already provoked Nepalese territorial nationalism. His government brought a constitutional amendment to incorporate&nbsp;Indian territories Kala Pani, Limpiyadhura and Lipulekh in the political map of Nepal.&nbsp;

Sarita Giri, Nepalese parliamentarian from the socialist party, had opposed this amendment and she proposed that it should be dropped. As a result, her home was attacked by protesters raising racist slogans against India and she was threatened to leave the country. Her party didn't stand by her, instead, it warned her with expulsion. This was the result of protesting Oli’s proposed amendment.&nbsp;

This constitutional amendment, with the support of main opposition party Nepali Congress and other opposition parties, was passed in both houses of parliament. Madeshi parties, which generally stand with India, also supported this amendment. If they had not supported amendment then Oli or his supporters would have labelled them as a “traitor” or as an “Indian agent”.&nbsp;

Oli is using India as a scapegoat to hide his incompetence at every level. This constant anti-India rhetoric by Oli could cause&nbsp;unimaginable damage to&nbsp;Indo-Nepal relations.

(Disclaimer: The opinions expressed above are the personal views of the author and do not reflect the views of ZMCL)

KP Sharma Oli, Prime Minister of Nepal and leader of Communist Party of Nepal, is in unmanageable crisis right now. A faction in his own party, led by former PM and Maoist sympathizer Pushpa Kamal Dahal (Prachanda), wants him to resign.

KP Sharma Oli, Prime Minister of Nepal and leader of Communist Party of Nepal, is in unmanageable crisis right now. A faction in his own party, led by former PM and Maoist sympathizer Pushpa Kamal Dahal (Prachanda), wants him to resign. He is losing his support on the ground over various governance issues. China has also reportedly annexed the Rui village of Nepal against which opposition parties have protested. According to reports, China has gradually made inroads into several Nepalese territories with an ulterior aim to seize complete control. Amidst the crisis, Oli once again targetted India to gather sympathies. On June 28, he alleged that meetings were organised in the New Delhi to remove him from the post of PM. This statement, however, backfired. A 44-member standing committee meeting was organised two days later in which chorus for his exit became louder. The Himalayan Times, leading Nepali daily, has reported that “party co-chair Pushpa Kamal Dahal asked PM Oli to quit owing to the government’s gross and all-around incompetence.” It is a long-standing policy of India not to interfere in the domestic politics of any other nation. Oli’s statement can create mistrust and suspicion towards India among common Nepalese people. Consequently, if Oli is removed then India will be considered an invisible factor behind it. To cover his incompetence, Oli has already provoked Nepalese territorial nationalism. His government brought a constitutional amendment to incorporate Indian territories Kala Pani, Limpiyadhura and Lipulekh in the political map of Nepal. Sarita Giri, Nepalese parliamentarian from the socialist party, had opposed this amendment and she proposed that it should be dropped. As a result, her home was attacked by protesters raising racist slogans against India and she was threatened to leave the country. Her party didn't stand by her, instead, it warned her with expulsion. This was the result of protesting Oli’s proposed amendment. This constitutional amendment, with the support of main opposition party Nepali Congress and other opposition parties, was passed in both houses of parliament. Madeshi parties, which generally stand with India, also supported this amendment. If they had not supported amendment then Oli or his supporters would have labelled them as a “traitor” or as an “Indian agent”. Oli is using India as a scapegoat to hide his incompetence at every level. This constant anti-India rhetoric by Oli could cause unimaginable damage to Indo-Nepal relations. (Disclaimer: The opinions expressed above are the personal views of the author and do not reflect the views of ZMCL)

KP Sharma Oli’s constant anti-India rhetoric is harming India-Nepal relations

India and China had a 'violent face-off' in which 20 Indian Army personnel died in action and 35 Chinese soldiers were killed. Soon calls for boycotting Chinese products grew louder.

Prasar Bharati, India’s public broadcasting agency, posted on Twitter about All India Radio’s Tibetan world service on June 17, 2020. It also mentioned short wave frequency of 9450 kHz, AIR application, and YouTube services for it. “Listen to All India Radio’s Tibetan World Service for authentic news and programs for and from Tibet,” reads the Tweet. &nbsp;

On the following day, Prasar Bharati tweeted the YouTube link of 10-part series on the "story of River Indus from Tibet to Sea flowing through Ladakh as chronicled in ancient Indian texts.” YouTube channel linked was the official channel of Prasar Bharati Archives.&nbsp;

This was, perhaps, the nudge from New Delhi to Beijing that it can vociferously raise the issue of Tibet from now onwards. &nbsp;

BJP MPs, Meenakshi Lekhi and Rahul Kaswan, virtually attended the swearing-in ceremony of Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen on May 20. &nbsp;They were among the 92 dignitaries from 41 countries. Taiwan, Tibet, Macau, and Hong Kong are the weak-points for China.

Along with increasing proximity with Taiwan and Tibet, India gave a strong message to Chinese companies too. In a couple of days, India reportedly cancelled a series of contracts signed with Chinese companies.&nbsp;

There were reports that the government has given the contract of building a 5.6 kilometres long tunnel on the Delhi-Meerut RRTS project to China. But on June 18, authorities have clarified that it was “under process” and “yet to be finalised”. On the same day, Indian Railway terminated contract worth Rs 471 crore by citing “poor performance”.&nbsp;

Indian intelligence agencies have also reportedly asked the government to red-flag the use of 52 mobile applications including TikTok, UC browser, Zoom, SHAREit, and clean master. The Indian government, according to reports, has also prohibited the use of gears manufactured by Chinese companies in BSNL and MTNL.&nbsp;

It is uncertain what will happen to Indo-China relations after this point. PM Narendra Modi is going to address the nation in the upcoming days. There are speculations that India may increase the excise duties on the Chinese imports or&nbsp;it may cancel existing contracts. India may also give further relief to manufacturing companies to shift their operations from China to India. &nbsp;

But the intentions of these messages are clear: One, India may raise the issue of Tibet and Taiwan. Two, Chinese companies will lose the market in India. &nbsp;

(Disclaimer: The opinions expressed above are the personal views of the author and do not reflect the views of ZMCL)

India and China had a 'violent face-off' in which 20 Indian Army personnel died in action and 35 Chinese soldiers were killed. Soon calls for boycotting Chinese products grew louder.

India and China had a 'violent face-off' in which 20 Indian Army personnel died in action and 35 Chinese soldiers were killed. Soon calls for boycotting Chinese products grew louder. Prasar Bharati, India’s public broadcasting agency, posted on Twitter about All India Radio’s Tibetan world service on June 17, 2020. It also mentioned short wave frequency of 9450 kHz, AIR application, and YouTube services for it. “Listen to All India Radio’s Tibetan World Service for authentic news and programs for and from Tibet,” reads the Tweet. On the following day, Prasar Bharati tweeted the YouTube link of 10-part series on the "story of River Indus from Tibet to Sea flowing through Ladakh as chronicled in ancient Indian texts.” YouTube channel linked was the official channel of Prasar Bharati Archives. This was, perhaps, the nudge from New Delhi to Beijing that it can vociferously raise the issue of Tibet from now onwards. BJP MPs, Meenakshi Lekhi and Rahul Kaswan, virtually attended the swearing-in ceremony of Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen on May 20. They were among the 92 dignitaries from 41 countries. Taiwan, Tibet, Macau, and Hong Kong are the weak-points for China. Along with increasing proximity with Taiwan and Tibet, India gave a strong message to Chinese companies too. In a couple of days, India reportedly cancelled a series of contracts signed with Chinese companies. There were reports that the government has given the contract of building a 5.6 kilometres long tunnel on the Delhi-Meerut RRTS project to China. But on June 18, authorities have clarified that it was “under process” and “yet to be finalised”. On the same day, Indian Railway terminated contract worth Rs 471 crore by citing “poor performance”. Indian intelligence agencies have also reportedly asked the government to red-flag the use of 52 mobile applications including TikTok, UC browser, Zoom, SHAREit, and clean master. The Indian government, according to reports, has also prohibited the use of gears manufactured by Chinese companies in BSNL and MTNL. It is uncertain what will happen to Indo-China relations after this point. PM Narendra Modi is going to address the nation in the upcoming days. There are speculations that India may increase the excise duties on the Chinese imports or it may cancel existing contracts. India may also give further relief to manufacturing companies to shift their operations from China to India. But the intentions of these messages are clear: One, India may raise the issue of Tibet and Taiwan. Two, Chinese companies will lose the market in India. (Disclaimer: The opinions expressed above are the personal views of the author and do not reflect the views of ZMCL)

New Delhi's message to China indicates a change in the strategy

China is changing the strategic equations&nbsp;amid COVID-19 pandemic crisis. There are serious allegations against&nbsp;China that it hid the information about coronavirus, trying&nbsp;to mislead the world. China has also, recently, shown aggression against India at Galwan valley and both sides faced casualties in a 'violent face-off'.

China is also facing a backlash on social media. Serious complaints are emerging on the social media platforms that they are censoring the content which is remotely against the ruling Communist Party of China (CPC).&nbsp;

The digital world gives&nbsp;voice to millions whose voices were not typically heard. Social media platforms are expected to handle the diverse viewpoints with tolerance but is it really happening?&nbsp;

Popular websites, including Google, Wikipedia, YouTube, Twitter and Facebook, are banned in mainland China. Only official accounts of ambassadors or mouthpiece of Chinese governments have access to social media websites. So, no information from mainland China can come to us. We can see only those things which China wants us to show and the same goes for Chinese citizens - they can only see the things which their government wants&nbsp;to reach them.

But the issue is much deeper than it seems. China is intimidating social media companies, who have offices in China, to remove content which is not suitable to the CPC.&nbsp;

Recently, popular Indian comedian and mimicry artist Saloni Gaur, who is popularly known as Nazma Aapa, had posted the video in which she made jokes on China. “So @TikToK_IN has removed my last video which had jokes on China, jaisa desh, vaisi app. Kuchh bolne ki freedom hi nahi hai,” she tweeted this later. There are similar instances in the US of America where TikTok has locked the accounts of users who had criticised China or took jibe at them.&nbsp;

Last year, The Guardian had accessed the documents, according to which, China had instructed TikTok, Chinese-owned popular social media application, to remove videos featuring Tiananmen square and Tibetan freedom. These contents were categorised as a violation of “hate speech and religion”. In addition, employees of the TikTok US of America were reportedly pressurised to remove “culturally problematic” videos which might offend the ruling party of China.&nbsp;

TikTok is managed by the Beijing-based company, hence, this can be expected but Chinese censorships are taking control over other platforms too.&nbsp;

For example, Google. On the play store, TikTok was rated 1.2 with approx 29 million reviews but after a few days, the rating was up to 4.4 and play store removed almost 9 million reviews. There was no clarification from the company over this manipulation.&nbsp;

In India, a movement was building up to remove the China-owned apps and for that purpose, one developer had made the application “Remove China Apps” which was available on the play store and was trending in top-free applications, but that application was deleted from the play store. However, after much outrage from the Indian side, it has been reinstated now.&nbsp;

On June 11, Zoom wrote a long blogpost and accepted that China has intimidated them to remove the content of pro-democracy Chinese activists based in the US.

Not only these, there are complaints that YouTube is also automatically censoring comments which features the word “communist bandit” and “50-cent party” in reference to the Communist Party of China. Comments featuring these two words were getting removed in just 15 seconds.&nbsp;

This internet censorship&nbsp;by China is really worrying. This is happening at a large scale which goes unresolved, and hence, we only see things which China wants us to show. 
 
(Disclaimer: The opinions expressed above are the personal views of the author and do not reflect the views of ZMCL)

China is changing the strategic equations amid COVID-19 pandemic crisis. There are serious allegations against China that it hid the information about coronavirus, trying to mislead the world.

China is changing the strategic equations amid COVID-19 pandemic crisis. There are serious allegations against China that it hid the information about coronavirus, trying to mislead the world. China has also, recently, shown aggression against India at Galwan valley and both sides faced casualties in a 'violent face-off'. China is also facing a backlash on social media. Serious complaints are emerging on the social media platforms that they are censoring the content which is remotely against the ruling Communist Party of China (CPC). The digital world gives voice to millions whose voices were not typically heard. Social media platforms are expected to handle the diverse viewpoints with tolerance but is it really happening? Popular websites, including Google, Wikipedia, YouTube, Twitter and Facebook, are banned in mainland China. Only official accounts of ambassadors or mouthpiece of Chinese governments have access to social media websites. So, no information from mainland China can come to us. We can see only those things which China wants us to show and the same goes for Chinese citizens - they can only see the things which their government wants to reach them. But the issue is much deeper than it seems. China is intimidating social media companies, who have offices in China, to remove content which is not suitable to the CPC. Recently, popular Indian comedian and mimicry artist Saloni Gaur, who is popularly known as Nazma Aapa, had posted the video in which she made jokes on China. “So @TikToK_IN has removed my last video which had jokes on China, jaisa desh, vaisi app. Kuchh bolne ki freedom hi nahi hai,” she tweeted this later. There are similar instances in the US of America where TikTok has locked the accounts of users who had criticised China or took jibe at them. Last year, The Guardian had accessed the documents, according to which, China had instructed TikTok, Chinese-owned popular social media application, to remove videos featuring Tiananmen square and Tibetan freedom. These contents were categorised as a violation of “hate speech and religion”. In addition, employees of the TikTok US of America were reportedly pressurised to remove “culturally problematic” videos which might offend the ruling party of China. TikTok is managed by the Beijing-based company, hence, this can be expected but Chinese censorships are taking control over other platforms too. For example, Google. On the play store, TikTok was rated 1.2 with approx 29 million reviews but after a few days, the rating was up to 4.4 and play store removed almost 9 million reviews. There was no clarification from the company over this manipulation. In India, a movement was building up to remove the China-owned apps and for that purpose, one developer had made the application “Remove China Apps” which was available on the play store and was trending in top-free applications, but that application was deleted from the play store. However, after much outrage from the Indian side, it has been reinstated now. On June 11, Zoom wrote a long blogpost and accepted that China has intimidated them to remove the content of pro-democracy Chinese activists based in the US. Not only these, there are complaints that YouTube is also automatically censoring comments which features the word “communist bandit” and “50-cent party” in reference to the Communist Party of China. Comments featuring these two words were getting removed in just 15 seconds. This internet censorship by China is really worrying. This is happening at a large scale which goes unresolved, and hence, we only see things which China wants us to show. (Disclaimer: The opinions expressed above are the personal views of the author and do not reflect the views of ZMCL)

There's little known, much unknown about internet censorship by China

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