Category: Taiwan Interview Series

  • India-Taiwan can Build a More Stable, Diversified Semicon Global Supply Chain in Next 5-years: Industry Leader

    Manik Kumar is currently based in Hsinchu, Taiwan and is working as the Vice President – India Operations at Hua E Precision Ltd (Group). He’s also serving as the Associate Director for the ELCINA Taiwan Desk, the liaison office established by the Electronic Industries Association of India (ELCINA) to build closer partnerships between the Semiconductor / electronics industries…

  • How Maritime Commerce Impacts the Geo-politics in the Wider Indo-Pacific Region

    By Vaibhav Agrawal If someone would have stepped aboard a merchant vessel bound for Singapore in the late 1980s, the sea back then would have felt like open space where the laws of commerce and navigation seemed settled. Over the decades, we have witnessed that sense slip away evidently. The waterways of the Indo-Pacific are…

  • Why is Taiwan Seeking a Free Trade Agreement with India?

    By Aditya Shrivastava/The Indo-Pacific Politics India-Taiwan relations have steadily matured since the mid-1990s, marked by economic engagement, pragmatic collaboration, and quiet diplomacy amid the One-China policy constraints. While India does not formally recognize Taiwan diplomatically, both sides maintain representative offices the India-Taipei Association in Taipei and the Taipei Economic and Cultural Center in New Delhi…

  • India has a role to play in the emerging strategic triad between Japan, Taiwan and Philippines: Expert

    There’s an existing discussion on the growing triad between the US, Philippines and Japan but at the backdrop of it is the strategic triangle between Japan, Taiwan and Philippines. In fact the latter runs like an underlying thread through the former because while the tensions across the Taiwan strait are popularly looked at from the…

  • “Eagle in the Arm”: India’s Vision for Drone Readiness

    By Rupal Kalebere On 18 September 2025, India’s Chief of Army Staff visited the Army’s drone training facility at Likabali in Arunachal Pradesh, marking the full-scale integration of Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) into Indian Army training and operations. The visit reaffirmed commitments first announced at the Kargil Vijay Diwas ceremony on 26 July 2025, where…

  • विशेष वार्ता: 2025 में भारत के लिए ताइवान क्यों महत्वपूर्ण है?

    साक्षात्कारकर्ता:वीनस उपाध्याय/अनुवादक:आदित्य श्रीवास्तव जाबिन टी. जैकब शिव नादर विश्वविद्यालय, दिल्ली-एनसीआर के अंतरराष्ट्रीय संबंध एवं प्रशासनअध्ययन विभाग में एसोसिएट प्रोफेसर हैं और सेंटर ऑफ एक्सीलेंस फॉर हिमालयन स्टडीज़ केनिदेशक भी हैं। वे पहले इंस्टीट्यूट ऑफ चाइनीज़ स्टडीज़ में फेलो और सहायक निदेशक रह चुके हैं। उन्होंने जवाहरलाल नेहरू विश्वविद्यालय, नई दिल्ली के स्कूल ऑफ इंटरनेशनल स्टडीज़…

  • 印度會如何與美國談判? 達卡專家表示: 拭目以待

    Interviewer: Venus Upadhayaya/ Translator: Yu-Ning Luo 羅鈺甯 坦比魯爾·伊斯蘭(Tanbirul Islam)是一位常駐孟加拉達卡的地緣經濟分析專家。他曾與諾貝爾和平獎得主、現任孟加拉首席顧問穆罕默德·尤納斯博士(Dr. Muhammad Yunus)密切合作,於2006年在尤納斯創立的智庫「尤納斯中心」(Yunus Centre)從事消除貧困與永續發展的工作。坦比魯爾在政治、投資、社會型企業以及小額信貸領域具備豐富專業知識。在任職於波士頓顧問公司後,他創立了「TI全球顧問公司」(TI Global Consultancy),目前為獨立顧問。 《印太政策》(The Indo-Pacific Policy)近日與坦比魯爾進行訪談,深入了解孟加拉在印太地區的政策走向,以及近期其對於南亞區域合作聯盟(SAARC)復興的展望。

  • ‘Taiwan represents the single most sensitive junction in the Indo-Pacific maritime order’: Maritime Lawyer

    The consequences of instability in Indo-Pacific waters manifest directly into the Indian economy and the factory floor. Vaibhav Agrawal is a maritime and logistics legal professional specialising in high-value cross-border shipping, finance, and compliance. His practice covers sanctions compliance, multimodal transport disputes and cargo claims under arbitral frameworks. As a former defence editor, he brings…

  • How India’s National Security Concerns are Impacting its Foreign Policy?

    Vicky Nanjappa is an Indian journalist with over 25 years of experience. He started off in his hometown in Kodagu district reporting general topics for local newspapers. Following this he was based out of both Bengaluru and New Delhi, where he covered the legal beat before moving on to writing on internal security. He has…

  • Indian Top Researcher at Taiwan’s Academia Sinica Wins Competition By German Institute

    Dr. Balchandar Navaneethan, an Indian post-doctoral fellow at Academia Sinica, Taiwan’s most prestigious research institute is the first international student winner of “The Falling Walls Lab Science Competition,” hosted by the German Institute Taipei. Common Wealth Magazine, Taiwan’s leading English magazine described Dr. Navaneethan’s award winning biomedical research and his story as an Indian achiever…