KATHMANDU: Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Central Committee Vice Minister of the International Department Chen Zhou has expressed concern over the ratification of the United States grant Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) with CPN-Unified Socialist Chairman Madhav Kumar Nepal.

Vice Minister Zhou held a dialogue with Nepali leader Nepal virtually on Thursday. During the talks, Vice Minister Zhou conveyed that China was interested in investing in development projects in Nepal of interest to the Nepali.

Meanwhile, Unified Socialist Chairman Nepal said his party was committed to the one-China policy and would not allow any anti-China activities to take place in Nepal.

Hua Chunying, who is Chinese Assistant Minister of Foreign Affairs as well as Foreign Ministry Spokesperson and Director General, Information Department, MFA People’s Republic of China, yesterday (Wednesday) concluded that MCC was a form of coercive diplomacy the US was pursuing in Nepal.

Taking to Twitter Wednesday, she asked if gifts are to be received with an ultimatum. “The #US described the $500 million MCC, a US-funded infrastructure program in #Nepal, as a“gift from the American people”, but meanwhile gave Nepal an ultimatum. Should a gift be delivered by an ultimatum? Coercive diplomacy,” her tweet read.

Dialogue between Vice Minister Chen Zhou and Unified Socialist Nepal comes a day after Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Hua Chunying’s tweet yesterday (Wednesday).