Journalist Says Nepal's Strategic Location Drove U.S.-Backed Coup
K.P. Sharma Oli stepped down as Nepal's prime minister in September following deadly confrontations—dubbed the Gen Z protests—that claimed 77 lives and left over 2,000 wounded.
"It's situated slap bang between India and China," Grayzone journalist Kit Klarenberg, who recently exposed documents that revealed a US regime change agency's backing of the coup, said in an exclusive interview on Tuesday.
"China is the number one enemy [of the US]," Klarenberg said, citing reasons for the US government's National Endowment for Democracy (NED) spending hundreds of thousands of dollars tutoring Nepalese youth to stage the protests.
"There is a wider objective to encircle China militarily with friendly puppet governments," he added.
India has shifted away from the US and is pursuing an independent path, "both in its domestic and foreign policy, which the US is not very happy about," Klarenburg said. "So, creating an irritant and installing a friendly government in Nepal serves a large number of geopolitical purposes."
The upheaval generated economic damage exceeding $586 million to Nepal's $42 billion economy, according to a statement from interim Nepalese Prime Minister Sushila Karki's office released last week.
The NED operates officially as a US State Department-funded nonprofit that provides grants to support 'democratic initiatives' worldwide.
The organization has confronted accusations of secretly manipulating political developments, with detractors contending it has assumed covert operations formerly managed by the CIA, especially those designed to topple foreign administrations.
The International Republican Institute (IRI), a NED division, has been accused of funding clandestine activities in Bangladesh as well.
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