Why Nepal’s youth-led government inherited the toughest job in Asia

Wedged between nuclear giants and battered by melting glaciers, Nepal’s untested new leadership faces a test of survival and strategic equilibrium.

Nepal continues to occupy one of the most strategically sensitive geopolitical spaces in Asia, wedged between two nuclear powers who watch its domestic politics with keen interest. The country contributes around 0.1 percent to the global greenhouse gas emissions. These two facts rarely appear in the same sentence, but they should.