Nepal, May 6 -- Beijing sees Nepal's dominant communist party infested with unreliable, squabbling and power-seeking upstarts who see-saw between India and China

Yes, President Bidya Devi Bhandari went to China on a state visit pegged to address Second Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation, and returned home last week. That is a fact. It is also true that her only predecessor President Ram Baran Yadav visited the communist country up north twice but was not accorded a state visit status. Beyond that there is little to go overboard, unlike what Nepal Communist Party (NCP) government headed by KP Oli's wants people to accept.

There was something for everybody at the Belt and Road Initiative Forum. The Protocol to the Transit a...