Материалы: April 5th, 2012

Chinese Influence in Nepal Grows

A STRANGE cast of Western tourists, Nepalese pilgrims, Tibetan  refugees and Chinese spies is forever circling the great stupa at  Boudha in Kathmandu, Nepal’s capital. As people walk clockwise  around the building, as prescribed by Buddhist tradition, Nepalese  plain-clothes security men mingle among them. Ever since protests in the Tibetan capital, Lhasa, were violently  suppressed […]