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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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Book: Indus Waters Story, Issues, Concerns, Perspectives
details: ‘Indus Waters Story, Issues, Concerns, Perspectives’ by Ashok Motwani and Sant Kumar Sharma Preface: Why Discuss Indus Waters Now? On 14 February 2019, a suicide attack was conducted by a Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) identified as Adil Dar by intelligence agencies) on a convoy carrying the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel in Pulwama, which killed…
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Finding Connection Between the Indian and Taiwanese Folk Heritage with an Indian Social Enterprise
The IndoPacificPolitics.com talked with Dheeraj Dubey, the founder of the Delhi based Centre for Contemporary Folklore, a project of the ParrotHouse Foundation for preserving folklore in India. With Dheeraj, IIP discussed India’s rich folk heritage and its connection with other folk heritages of the world, particularly the folk heritage of the 16 indigenous tribes of…
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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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Common Ground Between Taiwan’s Southbound Policy and India’s Look East Policy

By Priyajit Debsarkar There could be potentially a lot of common ground between Taiwan’s new Southbound Policy and India’s Look East Policy, which can work in synergy. It can be a viable alternative to the rise of the Middle Kingdom in spheres such as economics, military ties, and influence over respective regions. India plans to…
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On the Brink of a Multipolar World, India’s Grand Strategy Is Largely Defined by China, Analysts Say
India, the world’s fastest-growing economy, is also growing in its understanding of itself. As it does so, its “grand strategy”—the way it views its place in the world—is largely defined by China, experts say. “China looms increasingly large in India’s strategic consciousness,” Dhruva Jaishankar wrote in his recently released book, “Vishwa Shastra: India and the…