{"id":25254,"date":"2026-09-13T17:08:21","date_gmt":"2026-09-13T11:23:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eng.dragonmedia.com.np\/?p=25254"},"modified":"2026-09-13T17:08:21","modified_gmt":"2026-09-13T11:23:21","slug":"nepal-army-chief-ashok-raj-sigdel-leaves-for-china-to-attend-beijing-xiangshan-forum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eng.dragonmedia.com.np\/?p=25254","title":{"rendered":"<strong>Nepal Army Chief Ashok Raj Sigdel Leaves for China, to Attend Beijing Xiangshan Forum<\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Dragon Media Correspondent<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Chief of Army Staff General Ashok Raj Sigdel has left for China at the formal invitation of the Chinese People\u2019s Liberation Army. Before his departure for Beijing, Lieutenant General Pradeep Jung K.C. saw him off at Tribhuvan International Airport.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to the visit, a contingent of the Nepal Army presented a guard of honour to General Sigdel at Army Headquarters. During the visit, he is scheduled to participate in the 13th Beijing Xiangshan Forum.<\/p>\n<p>The visit is expected to provide an opportunity to further strengthen military relations between Nepal and China. 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Before his departure for Beijing, Lieutenant General Pradeep Jung K.C. saw him off at Tribhuvan International Airport. Prior to the visit, a contingent of the Nepal Army presented a guard &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":25255,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[164,160],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-asia","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Nepal Army Chief Ashok Raj Sigdel Leaves for China, to Attend Beijing Xiangshan Forum - Dragon Media<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Chief of Army Staff General Ashok Raj Sigdel has left for China at the formal invitation of the Chinese People\u2019s Liberation Army.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/eng.dragonmedia.com.np\/?p=25254\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Nepal Army Chief Ashok Raj Sigdel Leaves for China, to Attend Beijing Xiangshan Forum - 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