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which three fourth of the world trade passes. The US has a military base in Philippine and signed an agreement to build another one in that country. US imperialist policy of‘ Pivot to Asia” is aimed at isolating China by roping in Japan, Australia and India. Using an unresolved dispute of territory in South China sea between China, Philippines, Vietnam and Thailand, US imperialism is making all sorts of diplomatic manoeuvres, and instigation these countries into confrontation with China with China sending its troops to sparthy islands and US imperialist attempts to strengthen its control over the South China Sea, the situation becoming hot.
In this situation India develops relationship with its neighbours keeping in mind the positions and balance of forces in the chess board at the particular time. So we see a blow hot and blow cold relationship w ith China and Pakistan. Attempts to get Sri Lanka away from China. Same is true for Bangladesh. Nepal presents a specific feature in this respect, which will be discussed later.
So far one particular contradiction has been discussed. There are others also. The contradiction between imperialism and oppressed nations and people is also not only growing, but often it takes shape of armed conflicts. In Iraq and Afghanistan the US forces are not in a position to totally withdraw armed forces. Recently the US had to send 500 army off icers in Iraq. People of oppressed nations are continuously on the move. In Iran the US had to come to a compromise Syria is still a thorn in the throat of the imperialists. In Latin America the US imperialists are facing challenges from the nationalist forces like Chavez in Venezuela. True, they cannot bring revolutionary change and often have to come to comprom ise with the US imperialism. But the US imperialism also has to restrain itself. As a result of such resistance of the oppressed nations and people of the region after many decades the US had to come to a compromise with Cuba ending the embargo.
In this context, it is to be noted that most of aggressive acts of US imperialism were targeted towards countries which happened to be Muslim states and stiff resistances developed in those countries. Earlier while opposing the USSR aggression on Afghanistan the US imperialism aided and abetted not only the Taliban’ s but also certain terrorist organizations like Al Qaida. But when the USSR had to withdraw from Afg hanistan and the US imperialism stopped in, those terrorist organizations turned against the US. At this point of development the 9 / 11 incident gave a weapon in the hands of the US imperialist. They started calling all such resistances as acts of terror and declared a“ global war on terrorism”. They also started mobilising other countries to fight against terrorism
But they were b lind w hen civilian children in hundreds were killed in Palestine. Palestinians are carrying on a long drawn war not only against Israel, but also against the conspiracies of the US and NATO forces.
Nepal is a land locked country sandwiched between two big neighbours-India and China. After 10 years of civil war led by the CPN( Maoist) the 240 years old monarchy scripted a peace process. Through that peace agreement Nepal turned into a republic and elections to Constituent Assembly was held in April 2008. The CPN( Maoist) came out as the single largest party. The Hindu state was changed into a secular republic. Puspa Kumar Dahal( Prachanda) became the Prime Minister. There were deep divisions on drafting the constitution. In that situation Prachanda had to resign within 200 days following a controversy on sacking the then Nepal Army chief of the staff Rukumangal Kutuwal. But due to the deep devisions the constituent assembly failed to deliver a constitution within the stipulated two years. A new election was held. The CPN( Maoist) got much smaller representation than they had earlier. Finally the constitution was adopted in 2014. But there was great deal of discontent among the Madhesi people of the Terai region. After prolonged movement and necessary chang es in the constitution peace was resorted. But turmoil in Nepal is continuing. Recently a full circle completed with Prachand becoming the Prime Minister again. He is the seventh Prime Minister after the first constituent assembly elections eight year ago. This continued turmoil and instability in Nepal has a number of reasons. Especially, the interventions by its two big neighbours in Nepal’ s political and economic structure and conflicts of interests that arise from them is one of the main reasons.
Not only in the oppressed nations and countries of the world but also in less developed countries like Greece, the crisis has brought the people on the path of struggle. It is also a reflection of the peoples struggle against im perialist machinations. There through the“ NO” vote people of Greece sent a loud and clear signal that they are ready to face any situation to fight the design of the TROIKA( IMF- ECB-Europ ean Commission combine). The leaders of Greece including the Prime Minister Tsipras, the leader of Synza, finally
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