What message did Liu Jianchao bring to Kathmandu on Nepal-China relations?
Chinese communist leader Liu Jianchao in Bhaktapur It was only in 2003 that the Chinese government gave its first official view on the armed conflict that started in Nepal in 1996. “A group in Nepal are defaming our respected leader Mao Zedong ,” their statement read. Pushpa Kamal Dahal, taking in Mao Zedong’s ideology, formed the Maoist party and declared war against the state. As the war affected a lot of people in Nepal, it was talked about everywhere in the world. Even though China condemned the Maoist party, Dahal was merely following what Mao did in China in the early 1900s – using the people of the country to start a revolution. As this was happening, many forces around the world were even speculating if Dahal was being deployed by China to take a stand against the US and India. But, China said it had nothing to do with this. The person who wrote the statement was Liu Jianchao, a Chinese politician known for silent diplomacy. Liu Jianchao is now the head of the Internati