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Discuss the potential role India can play in initiating a possible phase of trilateral economic engagement among India, China and Nepal.

  • UPSC 2025
  • 15 marks
  • India and South Asia

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Nepal has long cast itself as "a bridge, not a buffer" between its neighbours, and trilateral economic engagement is the policy form of that idea. Beijing floated a China–Nepal–India economic corridor in 2018; India has never rejected the idea, and never advanced it. Two things make the question live: Nepal's political reset after the Gen…

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  • Why each party sees it differently
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