Yuxuan (Carlos) Hua

Tag: democratic erosion

  • A Fatal Alliance

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    On 17 May 2018, three months after jointly winning the national elections, Nepal’s two major communist parties, the Communist Party of Nepal (United Marxist-Leninist) and the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist Centre) announced their coalition into a unified Nepal Communist Party (NCP). Unlike most communist parties that gained power by violent means, the NCP and…

  • A Nonrewarding Escape

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    Nepal is now home to over 20,000 Tibetan refugees and descendants fleeing from the Chinese-controlled Tibetan Plateau, a majority of whom followed the Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama and became refugees in the 1960s. According to the Canadian Immigration and Refugee Board and the U.S. Department of State, many of them integrate well into local…

  • Big Brother Is on His Way

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    Despite its relative political freedom and civil liberty compared to other communist states, Nepal has demonstrated alarming trends of accelerating suppression of free press and strengthened control over social media. It creates grounds and potentiality for extensive information blockage and monopoly. The Freedom House has lowered their ranking score for Nepal’s media and information freedom…

  • The Communists Ruling over A Parliament

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    With the coalition of the two major communist parties and the communists’ subsequent total victory in the nation’s legislative and provincial elections in October 2017, the good old “communist-ruled countries family” embraced its brand new sixth member: the Himalayan state of Nepal. Nevertheless, distinctive from its other communist friends, Nepal stands as a parliamentary democracy…