China has begun the groundwork to lay the proposed strategic railway line connecting Lhasa to Kathmandu and finally to Lumbini close to the India-Nepal border.
This comes amid tensions between India and China coupled with a diplomatic row with between India and Nepal.
China has put out pictures of the exploration and surveys of the railway project. It showed a team carrying out some kind of a ground assessment at a site where the rail corridor is being planned. Read More…