"Dalai Lama’s office in Kathmandu closed' "
yep, I know ...I picked that up here :
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/4214933.stm
There is definitely high weirdness afoot in Nepal !
Just last month the King went , hat-in-hand , to Delhi .
Maybe they rejected his pleas , and then he took his case to the PRC and they required this (again!).
Personally I would love to see a military coup done by
large amounts of returning Royal Army (UK) Gurkhas .
Between the Maoists murderers, the chop-suey of political
parties and the wicky-wacky, possibly regicidal ,Monarch
and his worthless son , Nepal is in deep kim-chee.
Even the decent things they have always done (more-or-less)
for the Tibetans are coming to an end.
I hope it pleases President Bush and Sec. Rice to focus
very strongly on Nepal in the very immediate future , before
it is lost..... and that would be a phenomenal tragedy.
Gyanendra was always close to the Chinese-it was one of the main points of dispute between him & his late brother,who was pro-India.The previous Indian government of AB Vajpayee,showed little interest in pursuing a pro-active policy in Nepal & allowed things to drift & hence had no option to tie up with the King.That was the logic behind the big armsales to Nepal(along with the US & UK) -to not only defeat the Maoists,but also stem the rise of Nepal as a Chinese puppet.