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After Drone Deal Taiwan’s Interest in India’s D4 Anti-drone Platform May Advance: Expert
India Should Urgently Update its Dual-Use Items’ Export control list to include unmanned systems Rupal Kalebere is a researcher in defense policy and law, currently serving as a Senior Researcher at the Society for Aerospace, Maritime and Defence Studies(SAMDeS) and Programming Director at Young Professionals in Foreign Policy (YPFP) Tokyo. She regularly writes on India’s defense developments in both…
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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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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…