# China and India are no old friends; Nepal seeks to unite them against climate threats

https://mins.news/en/item/100873

- BBC Chinese, 2026-10-15 05:50 UTC
- World
- Original: https://www.bbc.com/zhongwen/articles/c674pq1e0dxqo/trad?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=rss

> Nepal’s Prime Minister Balendra Shah proposed a Himalayan Climate Resilience Mechanism at the UN General Assembly, calling for Nepal, India and China to strengthen cross-border disaster response and share scientific data. Faster warming is accelerating glacier loss and raising risks such as landslides and glacial lake floods, but border disputes and interrupted hydrological data-sharing complicate cooperation.

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