Rather than a bridge, Nepal should try to develop as a port

China and India are ancient civilisations. We can solve our problems together. We don’t need a third party.

Wang Peng, a research fellow from the Institute of State Governance at Huazhong University, Wuhan, was previously Deputy Secretary-General of the National Academy of Belt and Road Green Development (NABRGD) Beijing. Peng, a keen observer of South Asian geopolitics, was recently in Kathmandu to participate in ‘Kantipur Conclave-2024’. He sat down with the Post ’s Purushottam Poudel and Kantipur’s Jagdishor Panday to discuss a host of issues. Excerpt: