尼泊尔新政府外交政策趋强硬 边境贸易受阻

**Nepal-India relations in uncertain territory as new government charts assertive course** In the first six weeks of his government, Prime Minister Balendra Shah has declined to meet India’s ambassador. He has refused a request from the special envoy of the United States president. He has imposed customs duties that disrupted the daily commerce of millions of people living along the Nepal-India border. And he sent a formal diplomatic protest to both New Delhi and Beijing over a Himalayan pilgrimage route that his country claims as its own sovereign territory — a protest that landed just days before India’s foreign secretary was due to arrive in Kathmandu, and that helped prompt the visit’s postponement. Read more: https://phnompenhpost.com/international/nepal-india-relations-in-uncertain-territory-as-new-government-charts-assertive-course/ Follow us: https://thephnompenhpost.github.io/PhnomPenhPostMedia/