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> democratic country Nepal is classified as a Hybrid Regime [0] in democracy rankings. Following the end of the civil war, power has largely consolidated amon
by alephnerd 1y ago
> democratic country
Nepal is classified as a Hybrid Regime [0] in democracy rankings.
Following the end of the civil war, power has largely consolidated amongst 3 players - KP Sharma Oli, Sher Bahadur Deuba, and Prachanda - who play a game of musical chairs.
Ofc, both China and India are constantly interfering in Nepali politics and building random coalitions with permutations of these three along with smaller parties.
Whenever India feels Nepal is leaning too pro-China, some crisis happens, and whenever China feels Nepal is leaning to pro-India, some crisis also happens.
Indian state politics also plays a role, because the states of Sikkim, Uttarakhand, Bihar, and Uttar Pradesh have significant ethnic ties in Nepal (eg. Bihar's CM Nitish Kumar's family are Maithili with family ties across the borders, and his opponent Lalu Prasad Yadav has backed Yadav political movements in Nepal as well; UP's CM Yogi Adityanath is a Garhwali Rajput who used to lead a Hindu sect that was patronized by the Nepali royal family and still has significant pull in Nepal; and Sikkim's former CM Pawan Kumar Chamling was part of a ethno-tribal movement amongst Janjatis/Tibeto-Burman tribals who were at the bottom rung of the Nepal during it's monarchical rule; KP Sharma Oli grew up in a village barely 20 miles from Naxalbari right when the Naxalite/Maoist insurgency began in West Bengal), which adds another layer of complexity, because state level politics often leaks across both Nepal and India.
[0] - https://www.eiu.com/n/campaigns/democracy-index-2024/ https://www.eiu.com/n/campaigns/democracy-index-2024/
- skinnymuch 1y agoI’m assuming that ranking has countries like China as not democratic while countries like the US as democratic. When most people in China are happy with their govt/they correctly believe the govt is working in their interest. Meanwhile the majority in America are usually not happy with their current regimes and most certainly the govt does not represent the people.
- alephnerd 1y ago> while countries like the US as democratic America is ranked as a flawed democracy within the EIU - just like Israel, South Korea, and Italy - which I would say is a fairly accurate take about the state of American democracy. > When most people in China It's hard to tell whether Chinese think one way or the other, as these kinds of polls are tightly held. That said, protests are fairly common in China, and the rate of labor unrest within China has risen dramatically compared to the past 10 years [0] [0] - https://labourreview.org/strike-wave-china/ https://labourreview.org/strike-wave-china/
- kevin_thibedeau 1y ago> When most people in China are happy with their govt You don't seem to have seen the videos of people being shoved into vans when they try to exercise their right to lodge grievances about government corruption.
- fragmede 1y agoI agree, what ICE is doing in LA is pretty shameful!
- RestlessMind 1y agoThe difference is that people are protesting against ICE, writing op-eds openly across various forms of media and a prominent governor is trolling Federal govt's actions in public. Good luck trying to do any of that in China. US and other democratic societies may have warts, but there is a huge gap between those systems and China.
- xnyan 1y agoWhereas in the US, masked government goons have never thrown people in unmarked vans /s.
- titototititi 1y ago>most people in China are happy with their govt/they correctly believe the govt is working in their interest we can't complain ;)