Some people in Nepal like to call America \'imperialist' and India \'expansionist'. But compare the construction work of new boundary walls at the American Club in Phora Darbar and the Indian embassy and something doesn't seem right. The expansion of the American Club south of the royal palace has resulted in an impressive and wider sidewalk and has made the Kantipath intersection less congested. On the other hand, the Indian Embassy has raised the height of its wall in the narrow lane connecting Lajimpat to Kapurdhara and Sinamangal so that it now looks like a tunnel. The Indian Embassy has the largest area of any embassy in Kathmandu yet it didn't offer to make the road wider, while the Americans were much more generous. The so-called imperialists turned out not to covet territory as much as the so-called expansionists, who wouldn't give an inch. Maybe that is the difference between the two.