http://asia.nikkei.com/Politics-Economy/International-Relations/Nepal-joins-China-s-Silk-Road-initiative-possibly-irking-India May 12, 2017 3:25 pm JST KATHMANDU (Kyodo) -- Nepal on Friday signed an agreement to be part of Chinese President Xi Jinping's ambitious plan to build a new Silk Road linking Asia, Africa and Europe, a move that could alarm India, which jostles with China for influence in Kathmandu. At a special function held at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Kathmandu, Foreign Secretary Shanker Das Bairagi, the ministry's top bureaucrat, and Chinese Ambassador to Nepal Yu Hong inked the deal, the ministry said. "This is a historic agreement," said Foreign Minister Prakash Sharan Mahat, who witnessed the signing to bring the Himalayan nation into Beijing's initiative to expand its economic and geopolitical heft across several continents. The massive infrastructure project is commonly referred to as "One Belt, One Road," short for Silk R
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