The Times of India, India’s largest circulation and longest-lived English-language paper, recently published an editorial emphasizing the benefits of expanding cooperation with Taiwan and pointing out that there is no need to be overly concerned about China, making the Chinese embassy in India jumpy.
The Times of India published an editorial on the 4th of this month, “New Delhi’s cooperation with Taipei is both mutually beneficial and sends a clear signal to China,” emphasizing that Taiwan is a country of 23 million people, in addition to a good democratic system, but also a leader in Asia’s economic and semiconductor fields, and arguing that The Indian government should not be too concerned about China’s unilateral political claims on Taiwan.
The editorial said that as China’s influence becomes stronger, India should find ways to understand China better, and Taiwan is a country that understands China very well, and believes that “India-Taiwan cooperation is of strategic importance,” and pointed out that India can learn from Taiwan in the fields of smart cities, agricultural technology and semiconductors, and that Taiwan provides The government’s policy is to provide a platform for the development of a new generation of Chinese companies.
The Times of India published an editorial in support of friendship with Taiwan. (Photo/reproduced from the Times of India)
The government’s policy of “one India” is not respected by Beijing at all, and relatively speaking, India does not need to pay attention to the “one China” argument, and if China insists on friendship with Pakistan, India should also establish a friendly friendship with Taiwan to counteract China.
Taiwan officials hold a press conference in New Delhi, Sept. 20, 2019 (Reuters)
The Chinese embassy in India was furious with the content, saying that the Indian media should not talk about the relationship between Taiwan and China arbitrarily, and that the Indian media’s move was a blatant violation of the “one-China principle” position held by Indian officials, angrily criticizing “the firm opposition to any form of official contacts between any diplomatic country and Taiwan. The issue of Taiwan is an untouchable red line. The Taiwan issue is a red line that cannot be touched, and there can be no compromise on the issue of right and wrong”.
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