Diplomatic License | Nepal, get done with the MCC
The MCC compact has been turned into a political football that has little to do with American foreign policy published on 2021-04-22 14:04:00
Four years after Nepal and the US signed the MCC compact, we are back to square one. Those who believed in 2017 that the compact was a devil’s bargain continue to be dead-set against it. The camp pushing it is as adamant about the great good the compact, once ratified, can do for Nepal.
With the Nepal Communist Party government’s near two-thirds majority while only a simple majority would be needed for the compact’s parliamentary approval it should have had no trouble getting it passed. But a party faction intent on pulling the rug from under PM Oli would have none of it. Those in this faction saw in the compact American imperial designs writ large. Not coincidentally, the compact’s strongest opponents have also traditionally been seen as C