You just have to realize that India is ruled by Communists and Nehruvian-Stalinists. Nepal is a small country and it is bound to be insecure, but Nepalis usually don't take any nonsense. When Iraqis killed Nepali hostages, the Nepalis burnt down the mosque at Kathmandu.
There are reports that the Chinese government intimidated the King into doing this, but what of the Maoists? Surely, China is on the side of Maoists. There is no doubt about that.
As for Nepal not trusting India, check out how the Indian government behaved when police surrounded the entire top leadership of the Naxalites (Naxalites are violent Communists who believe in the "revolutionary" way as opposed to the Marxists who are supposedly "peaceful" and stand in elections. Naxalites call themselves Marxist-Leninists or Maoists.)
Cops track down and surround Naxalite leaders, but politicians force them to withdraw.
As you can see, you may have liberal RATS in USA, but at least let us agree that our rats are worse than yours. Ours are sewer rats. I am not surprised that the King of Nepal bypassed India. I hope he doesn't become a stooge of China and I also hope that he cleanses Nepal of Maoists.
Thanks for the post and the link. Very eye-opening stuff. If it's not too much trouble, please ping me when you run across info re: Nepal, Indian Communists, Red China's role in all of this, etc. After all, inquiring minds want to know! :o)
Best regards--TTS
Just so the king's name isn't Sihanouk. ;)
BTW, didn't I send you a link to Peter Duesberg's website re: infectious diseases/AIDS? If so, what did you think?
It is a pretty complicated affair when you are a small country caught between two large giants. I remember on the map there used to be a country called Sikkim that existed on the Sino-Indian border. It does not exist anymore (I think India annexed it in 1975).