Power Play

How will India use the Taiwan chip in dealing with China?

Taiwan’s tech prowess in semiconductors has value for both the island and India as they manage their individual challenges from the Chinese.

Taipei 101 in Taiwan. Taiwan is one of the key areas over which the US-China rivalry is playing out PHOTO: UNSPLASH
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Power Play is a weekly column that looks at various facets of US-China rivalry and its implications for Asia.

For years, India, which supports the one-China policy, has been careful about its relations with Taiwan, to avoid upsetting China which regards the island as a renegade province to be reunified, by force if necessary.

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