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Nepal also became a dialogue partner in the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation. Both sides had avoided formalising these issues in the past as they agreed China couldn’t substitute India in Nepal, given the latter’s “India-locked status”, open border and long history of a symbiotic existence. But the five-month long blockade Nepal suffered after promulgating its constitution and India’s visible international isolation apparently contributed to Kathmandu looking the other way. Prime Minister K.P. Sharma Oli seemed happy at the end of his week-long visit to China, exactly a month after his trip to India. Nepal and China signed a series of agreements, from undertaking feasibility studies on railway connections to exploring oil and gas deposits in Nepal. The two sides also signed a trade and transit agreement, and are to undertake a feasibility study for a free trade agreement.
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