Weeks before KP Sharma Oli took office as Nepal's prime minister, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on February 1, 2018 sent Sushma Swaraj, the then minister for external affairs, to Kathmandu. It was an unprecedented and surprising move from Modi and it was viewed as Delhi’s overtures in the wake of frayed ties between Nepal and India.

A week after Oli was elected prime minister, Delhi rolled out the red carpet for him. Four months later, Oli travelled to Beijing in the third week of June.

With nearly a two-thirds majority, the communist leader had a strong mandate to govern for the full five-year term just while streamlining Nepal’s foriegn policy vis-a-vis India and China as well as world powers, particularly the United States.

The Oli government is now halfway through its term. Analysts say instead of strengthening its foreign policy over the last two and a half years, it left it in a disarray. With the Foreign Ministry working on a new foreign policy document, according to them, it's a good time to make it oriented to domestic needs and promotion and defence of the interest of the state in view of the global shifts.

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