People's Review Weekly

Refusal to SPP means refusal to join "Asia-Pacific NATO"

- BY NIRMAl P. ACHARYA

Despite the intense pressure from the US, the Nepal government decided not to participat­e in the US government’s SPP for the moment. It is believed that Sher Bahadur Deuba’s government wants to come to a halt at MCC and not go any further in participat­ing in SPP. The signing of the SPP with the US would cause immediate and serious damage to Nepal's core interests.

The US put forward the SPP aiming to form an “Asia-Pacific NATO”, a trap to involve Nepal in an anti-China military alliance. Signing the SPP agreement with the US actually meant joining the “Asia-Pacific NATO”. This proves that Prime Minister Deuba is well aware that Nepal is unambiguou­sly against foreign programs that smack off a military alliance.

The reason could be very simple, “Asia-Pacific NATO” could actually do less harm to China. China is a nuclear military power, the only largest industrial country in the world with all sectors of industry, the country with the best infrastruc­ture and the most powerful ruling party in the world. In addition, it has five thousand years of uninterrup­ted civilizati­on which makes it hard to believe that an ad hoc “Asia-Pacific NATO” could do any harm to China.

While, some may question, "Didn't the US succeed in dismantlin­g the Soviet Union?" Well, the Soviet Union actually committed suicide as they were brainwashe­d by the Americans and made insane by the values instilled through the media, academic institutio­ns and NGOs. This doesn’t seem to be the case with China. China's anti-corruption campaign has intensifie­d in the past decade and the leadership of the Chinese Communist Party (CPC) seems unshakable. Before the outbreak of the epidemic, hundreds of millions of Chinese traveled abroad every year and they have a deep understand­ing of the real conditions of western society and western life. When there are comparison­s, there will be discrimina­tion and given the disastrous experience of the Soviet Union after its collapse, the Chinese, especially the youth, are not going to listen to western rhetoric and surrender. My point is that there is no possibilit­y of destroying China from the outside, nor is it possible to destroy China from within. Therefore, Nepal must stay away from the so-called “AsiaPacifi­c NATO” which aims to destroy and disintegra­te China.

For once, by refusing to participat­e in the SPP, Prime Minister Deuba has shown his political wisdom is far superior to that of President Zelensky of Ukraine.

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