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Taiwan is taking on things head on, despite its growing tension with China. With the chip market compromised over pandemic and closures of the production facilities, the US and Taiwan have decided to support each other in semiconductor space. It is worth noting that this partnership comes amid escalating tensions between China and independently governed Taiwan. China has been forcing itself on Taiwanese government and wishes to make it a part of its sovereignty. Currently, Beijing continues to view Taiwan as a breakaway province. China's air force has been  entering  Taiwanese airspace frequently in recent months and staging military exercises near the island, prompting fears of a military conflict. The United States on the other hand has been trying to support Taiwan, a country which has had to fight a lot harder for its trade relations to be taken seriously worldwide, under constant pressure from China. The Technology Trade and Investment Collaboration (TTIC) framewo...

Under Modi leadership India has found a smart way to get back to China and develop its place in the world order   India is playing a kind of smooth politics to earn its place in the world arena. As a nation that was under British rule for almost 100 years, has taken a long time to stand back on its feet and be taken seriously.   The Covid-19 situation has given the Centre a chance to prove how it needs to be taken seriously and cannot be ignored anymore.  For this, India started to send off consignments of Covid-19 ingeniously developed vaccine candidate to its neighbours.  Paraguay was also a well thought out strategy. But Taiwan has said that India did not in order to wade off the China lure. It is a well-known fact that   China had been publicly stating that Paraguay – Taiwan's diplomatic ally – would be able to receive COVID-19 vaccines, if it severed ties with Taiwan, foreign minister Joseph Wu claimed. For China, it is important to keep pushing T...

Taiwan is also using vaccine diplomacy to win allies to its end.... Taiwan has been generous to help its only South American ally with the Covid-19 vaccine. This is indeed a time when everyone should forget enmity and come on a level playing ground to help each other. The help comes after people went up and arms against the Paraguayan government for having let them down over shoddy medical facilities and no vaccine supply to combat the increasing number of cases of the virus spread.   Taiwan is clear that the help they are extending Paraguay has nothing to do with the vaccine supply they have received for their own country. Taiwan has faced a lot of repression against China, due to which it has found it difficult to create its own trade relations with any country. As of now, only 15 countries have formal diplomatic relations with Chinese-claimed Taiwan, and Taipei has long been nervous at Beijing's efforts to entice away its remaining friends. This is indeed new-age diplomacy...