Is China Truly Friendly?: Case of China's "Good Neighbor" Policy toward Nepal

Grace Natasya, Paween Rungtaweechai

2018

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to examines China's "good neighbor" policy through the use of cultural diplomacy, economic cooperation, and infrastructure development assistance to Nepal. To explore the topic, this paper has a qualitative background with descriptive design. Furthermore, the translation of this paper will describe the influence of China's policy on Nepal as a country that has geographical proximity to China. China-nepal's cultural and geographic proximity provides great advantages for long-term cooperation between the two countries, especially for China's highly ambitious mega project of OBOR (One Belt One Road). The strategic layout of Nepal enables the expansion of China's trade route wider, so the significance of the OBOR project to the Chinese economy is growing. However, the problem that arises later is whether Nepal earns a worthy profit through the implementation of China's "good neighbor" policy? For that reason, the main argument put forward in this paper is that China is more profitable, more strategic, and dominates Nepal economically, culturally and politically. This kind of relation produce stratified relationship. So, China's foreign policy towards Nepal is still very fluid and potentially unfriendly.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Natasya G. and Rungtaweechai P. (2018). Is China Truly Friendly?: Case of China's "Good Neighbor" Policy toward Nepal. In Proceedings of Airlangga Conference on International Relations - Volume 1: ACIR, ISBN 978-989-758-493-0, pages 55-62. DOI: 10.5220/0010273000002309

in Bibtex Style

@conference{acir18,
author={Grace Natasya and Paween Rungtaweechai},
title={Is China Truly Friendly?: Case of China's "Good Neighbor" Policy toward Nepal},
booktitle={Proceedings of Airlangga Conference on International Relations - Volume 1: ACIR,},
year={2018},
pages={55-62},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0010273000002309},
isbn={978-989-758-493-0},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of Airlangga Conference on International Relations - Volume 1: ACIR,
TI - Is China Truly Friendly?: Case of China's "Good Neighbor" Policy toward Nepal
SN - 978-989-758-493-0
AU - Natasya G.
AU - Rungtaweechai P.
PY - 2018
SP - 55
EP - 62
DO - 10.5220/0010273000002309