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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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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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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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In a Major Change in Trade Approach India scrutinizes its Export of Rare Earths to Japan, Seeking Magnets in Return: Expert
By Venus Upadhayaya India’s contemplating halting the export of rare earth minerals to Japan. News reports last week describe it as a move to secure domestic supplies and to reduce dependence on China that launched restrictions on seven rare earth elements and finished magnets in April. An expert described it as a major change in…
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Why Would Taiwan Issue a Statement in Support of India’s Actions Against Terrorist Post-Pahalgam?
By Venus Upadhayaya After India’s punitive and precision strikes against, what New Delhi serialized as nine terrorist sites inside Pakistan on May 7, a plethora of reactions poured in from governments around the world. These statements denoted their respective foreign policy in South Asia vis-a-vis India and Pakistan. Taiwan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) also…
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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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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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Taiwan and Its Semiconductors are on the ‘Frontlines’ of the New Cyber Domain warfare: Expert
Prof. (Dr.) NishaKant Ojha is a distinguished Ph.D. and Post-Doctorate alumnus from Aalborg University, Denmark. He is a globally acclaimed expert in artificial intelligence, IoT, machine learning, and next-generation technologies. In India, he holds a prestigious position as an Eminent Faculty member in Cyber, Aerospace Security, and Counterterrorism, collaborating closely with the Defense Tri-Services and…