Taipei, Oct. 16 (CNA) The brand new management of the Legislative Yuan’s India friendship group vowed Friday to additional improve relations with India by parliamentary diplomacy amid the warming of sentiments between Taiwan and India.
In an occasion to mark the handover of the management of the Taiwan-India Parliamentary Friendship Affiliation, Legislator Wu Yu-chin (吳玉琴), the group’s new chairwoman, stated she is going to promote bilateral parliamentary exchanges.
“We hope we will type a delegation to go to India’s parliament when the COVID-19 pandemic subsides. The goals of the affiliation are to advertise parliamentary dialogue in addition to freedom and democracy,” Wu stated.
She thanked India’s media for his or her assist of Taiwan over a Nationwide Day spat involving the Chinese language embassy in New Delhi.
In accordance with Indian media studies, the Chinese language embassy warned Indian journalists to not confer with Taiwan as a “nation” of their reporting of Taiwan’s Oct. 10 Nationwide Day occasions.
Nonetheless, Beijing’s motion backfired, leading to adverse responses from India basically, with many Indian netizens posting messages on social media in assist of Taiwan.
A spokesperson of India’s Ministry of Exterior Affairs on Oct. 8 stated that the nation’s media is free and might report on points because it sees match.
A political determine in India on Oct. 9 positioned posters outdoors the Chinese language embassy in New Delhi printed with the flag of the Republic China — the formal identify of Taiwan — and the phrases wishing Taiwan a contented Nationwide Day.
In the meantime, Gourangalal Das, director-general of the India Taipei Affiliation, India’s de facto embassy in Taiwan, stated in his remarks that he sees the Taiwan-India Parliamentary Friendship Affiliation as a bridge connecting the folks of India and Taiwan.
“There may be nice admiration and recognition in India for Taiwan’s many achievements on all fronts,” he stated, making particular point out of Taiwanese folks’s collective efforts in containing the COVID-19 pandemic.
Das expressed hope that Taiwan and India can have extra cooperation, particularly within the fields of funding, IT {hardware} and software program, sensible agriculture, precision drugs, expertise coaching and industrial automation.
Figures supplied by Taiwan’s international ministry confirmed that bilateral commerce between Taiwan and India was a meager US$5.8 billion in 2019 and that at the moment, there are about 106 Taiwanese corporations working in India.
In accordance with info supplied by the Taiwan-India Parliamentary Friendship Affiliation, it has about 70 members at current, 43 of whom are legislators.
The affiliation has visited India in 2014 and once more in 2017.
