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India’s Strategic Outreach to Taiwan: A Calibrated, Independent Partnership
By Prof. (Dr.) Nishakant Ojha India’s growing engagement with Taiwan has increasingly drawn global attention. What was once limited to unofficial economic and academic exchanges has evolved into a multifaceted partnership involving trade, technology, education, labor mobility, and covert strategic dialogue. However, this outreach has also raised questions, particularly regarding how India’s Taiwan strategy aligns—or…
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What India Needs for Its Semiconductor Vision? How Can Taiwan Help it?
Parv Sharma is a Senior Analyst with Counterpoint Technology based out of India. Counterpoint Technology is a global firm providing analytics, content, delivery or after-sales support to businesses in AI, Semiconductors, Automotive, loT & cloT, Consumer Electronics, eSIM, Smartphones, Manufacturing, Network and Infrastructure etc. The Indo-Pacific Politics talked with Parv Sharma to get an industry…
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Taiwan and India Silently Signed a Private-Sector Drone Deal, Expert Calls it ‘Significant’
Taiwan’s Common Wealth Magazine on June 27 reported an important private-sector, drone deal between India and Taiwan that happened in late April after the Pahalgam attack and before the launch of India’s Operation Sindoor against several terrorist-linked infrastructure facilities inside Pakistan on May 7. The Indo-Pacific Politics interviewed, Sameer Patil, the Director of the Centre…
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Taiwan’s Tech Leadership is About ‘Cost and Geopolitics’: AI Industry Leader
Dr. Sahar Tahvili (Ph.D.), is an Adjunct Associate Professor in the AI Industrial Systems in Sweden and the co-author of the book, Artificial Intelligence Methods for Optimization of the Software Testing Process: With Practical Examples and Exercises along with Leo Hatvani, a machine learning engineer and an expert in natural language processing. Dr. Tahvilli was…
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My Story and the Story of My Media Platform: Indo-Pacific Politics
By Venus Upadhayaya I started working as a journalist in 2005 after graduating from a journalism college in Bangalore. So after twenty years of work, I can be credited to be a senior journalist. In college I was mentored by the late VN Narayanan, a veteran journalist who had worked and led many leading English…
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India-Taiwan Chip Diplomacy is Unique and Thriving: Researcher
India’s Semiconductor dream has started to unfold. The country is set to launch its first domestically produced semiconductor chip utilizing 28 to 90 nanometre technology by this year end. Under its Semiconductor Mission, the country is also currently developing six chip fabrication units. Taiwan is an important part of these developments–Foxcom or the Taiwanese Hon…
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Chess is a Lost India-China Civilization Link–How can India-Taiwan Build Upon a Shared Knowledge Heritage?
Aman Gopal Sureka is a Robotic Engineer from Western Michigan University; is the Owner and CEO of the Kolkatta based Manufacturing Automation and Software Solutions but above all he’s the progenitor of Khol Khel, an enterprise that designs and produces tools and games for learning, creativity, and cultural preservation. These tools and games are rooted…
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Can Tribal Communities in India and Taiwan Connect to Create a New Sphere of Cultural Exchange?
There are 16 Austronesian tribes in Taiwan: Amis, Atayal, Paiwan, Bunun, Pinuyumayan, Rukai, Cou, Saisiyat, Yami, Thao, Kavalan, Truku, Sakizaya, Sediq, Hla’alua and Kanakanavu. Their population is 571,816 (2019), or 2.42% of the total Taiwanese population, according to the International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs. Their affairs are managed by the ministry known as the…
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‘Operation Sindoor’ Was World’s First Contest Between Indian and Chinese Weapon Systems: Expert
India conducted ‘Operation Sindoor’ — punitive, precision strikes on nine terrorists camps inside Pakistan after 26 men were killed by terrorists in Jammu and Kashmir’s Baisaran Valley on April 22. The victims were shot in front of their families after being specifically identified as ‘Hindus’. Three-day border skirmishes and drone strikes between India and Pakistan…
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What Does India Becoming the Fourth Largest Global Economy Mean for Taiwan?
By Venus Upadhayaya Also published in The Sunday Guardian on June 8, 2025. India officially overtook Japan to become the fourth largest global economy at $4 trillion, declared its officials this week. The country is estimated to become the third largest economy by 2027. This rise of an Asian democracy will have a larger geo-economic…