In the 1970s King Birendra of Nepal proposed Nepal as a "zone of peace"
between India and China and in the 1980s, Nepal began importing Chinese
weaponry, which in the perception of the government of the Republic of
India, was in contravention of India-Nepal 1950 treaty; and has since
sought to establish extensive military cooperation in a move to reduce
perceived Indian influence.When the United States, United Kingdom and
India refused to supply arms to the regime of King Gyanendra of Nepal,
who had assumed direct rule to suppress the Maoist insurgency during the
Nepalese civil war (1996–2006), China responded by dispatching arms to
Nepal,
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