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The Silent Infiltration: How Pakistan Is Exploiting Taiwan’s Southbound Blind Spot
By Prof. (Dr.) Nishakant Ojha As Taiwan increasingly seeks to diversify its international relationships and reduce its over dependence on China, its New Southbound Policy has become a cornerstone of its foreign outreach strategy. The policy promotes robust engagement with South and Southeast Asian nations, particularly in areas such as trade, education, technology, and cultural…
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Potential of Cultural Diplomacy for India-Taiwan Ties
By Dr. Sampa Kundu Cultural diplomacy is crucial for India and Taiwan for several strategic, soft power, and identity-related reasons. It has emerged as a key element in India-Taiwan bilateral relations due to limited political-diplomatic ties. Cultural diplomacy is a powerful, low-risk, high-impact tool in this context. It serves many purposes for India. Through cultural…
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India Needs to Cultivate Emotional Rationality to Face a World Led by US-China Competition
By Venus Upadhayaya India is about emotions and we have always taken pride in it–our culture, our civilizational pedigree, our history and our nationalism is all about emotions. While progressing let’s not add irrationality to it! Let’s accept we are the largest demography experiencing the biggest ever socio-economic transition the world has ever witnessed before.…
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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…
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India-Taiwan Should Create Tailor-made, Sector-specific Accords That Would Serve as Catalysts for Immediate Trade
Namrata Hasija is a Research Fellow with the Centre for China Analysis and Strategy, and her primary area of interest is Chinese foreign policy and India-Taiwan relations. She was a recipient of the Taiwan Fellowship by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (2019-20) and the Huayu Enrichment Scholarship by the Ministry of Education, Taiwan (2014-15). Before…
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Ahead of US-India Trade Negotiations: Some Reflections on Trump’s Statements on the Recent India-Pakistan Crisis!
By Venus Upadhayaya Published in the Sunday Guardian on May 16, 2025. As a crisis unfolded between India and Pakistan after the April 22 Pahalgam attack that killed 26 Hindu tourists, US President Donald Trump made a few statements. Both India and Pakistan reacted to these statements that denote their respective foreign policies and thus…
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Taiwan is Key to the Maritime Geopolitics of the Indo-Pacific: Navy Expert
Capt. Kamlesh Kumar Agnihotri (Rtd.) is an Indian navy veteran placed at New Delhi’s National Maritime Foundation (NMF) as a Senior Fellow. He earlier served as a Senior Fellow at the Centre for Joint Warfare Studies (CENJOWS), New Delhi. His expertise for 17 years has been on Chinese Defense Forces, particularly the Chinese Navy. He currently…
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Taiwan and the Evolution of QUAD: Will the Two Converge?
By Dr. Satoru Nagao To delve into where Taiwan and QUAD will converge in the future, we need to ask ourselves a few simple questions: What is the meaning of QUAD in today’s Indo-Pacific and why is Taiwan important in this emerging context of the Indo-Pacific? The QUAD is a security arrangement between Japan, the…
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