, Aug. 18 -- Distinguished Fellow at the Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD) Debapriya Bhattacharya on Monday said India and China have to look at 'face to face and eye to eye' if the Hindu Kush Himalaya (HKH) initiative has to succeed.

"And Nepal is placed very strategically in between India and China to carry on that dialogue. I hope that will happen in the future," he said.

Debapriya, a prominent economist and former Permanent Representative of Bangladesh to the United Nations, made the remarks while responding to a question during a high-level panel discussion titled 'Impacts of Climate Change, Disaster Risks and the Role of Parliamentarians' on the sidelines of the Hindu Kush Himalaya (HKH) Parliamentarians' Meet-2025, which began at ...