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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…
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Future of Indian Labor Mobility in the Indo-Pacific Countries
Emerging cases, LABOR mobility cooperation and implications for enhanced regional cooperation By Pooran Chandra Pandey Labor mobility broadly refers to the ease with which labor force are able to move around within an economy and between different nations. It is an important factor in the study of economics because it looks at how labor, one of…
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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…
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How Can India Design Future Security for its Trade Routes Around Taiwan?
By Vaibhav Agrawal The strategic logic is simple but uncomfortable that Taiwan sits astride flows of unusually high economic density, and the consequence of instability there is not a localized hiccup but a systemic shock to global supply chains. I have watched consignments of precision electronics move through these watercourses with the same care one…
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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…
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There Are ‘Competing Visions of the Rules-Based Order’ in the Indo-Pacific: Author
Gaurav Sen is an international relations scholar and analyst specializing in the Indo-Pacific, strategic affairs, and Taiwan. He is a Senior Research Fellow at the School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, and also teaches at the University of Delhi. He has contributed to leading think tanks, including to the Indo-Pacific Studies Centre…
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Taiwan Must Reaffirm its ‘Importance to the U.S.’ while Remaining Committed to its National Security: Author
J. Michael Cole (寇謐將) is a Senior Fellow at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute, a Senior Fellow at the Global Taiwan Institute, a Senior Fellow at the University of Nottingham, UK and a Research Fellow at the Prospect Foundation, Taipei, Taiwan. He’s the author of the just released book, The Taiwan Tinderbox. ASEAN Wonk, a publication with…
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‘Asia-Pacific’ Remains Critical for Trump: Expert
‘It takes some political wisdom for Taiwan to maneuver between the two great powers.‘ Zhiqun Zhu, PhD, is a Professor of Political Science and International Relations at Pennsylvania‘s Bucknell University. He was Bucknell’s International Relations Department Chair (2017-2021), inaugural Director of the China Institute (2013–2017), and MacArthur Chair in East Asian politics (2008–2014). He previously…
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Modi’s Tokyo Visit: India and Japan Deepen Ties Amid U.S. Trade Frictions and China’s Assertiveness
By Rupal Kalebere Hours before Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Tokyo visit for the 15th India–Japan Annual Summit, Japan’s chief tariff negotiator abruptly canceled his trip to Washington. Ryosei Akazawa had been scheduled for a 10th round of talks with the Trump administration on automobile tariffs and a massive $550 billion Japanese investment pledge. The cancellation…
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Ahead of Modi’s Japan Trip Expert Says Japan Seeks Diverse Allies that are ‘More into Sovereignty than Hegemony’
Indian Prime Minister, Narendra Modi will travel to Japan today evening for a two-day summit beginning tomorrow. Among many significant things happening between the two countries is the Japanese intent to invest $68 billion in India in the next ten years and an agreement to exchange over 500,000 people in the next five years. The…