Sana Hashmi | 胡莎娜 🇮🇳

You know you’re doing the right thing when @MOFA_Taiwan Minister Joseph Wu tells you you’re the second Ambassador of India in Taiwan.🥹 Thank you so much, Minister Wu. Can’t thank Taiwan enough for the warmth. It’s a home for a reason!

This week, in my @ThePrintIndia’s #EyeonChina column, I argue the controversial dam on the Brahmaputra raises alarm in India because beneath China’s rhetoric of development flows a deeper current, shaped by quiet force & strategic intent. This isn’t just the north-west water…

'China’s Brahmaputra dam is also a military asset. It raises alarm for India' Sana Hashmi @sanahashmi1, fellow at Taiwan-Asia Exchange Foundation, writes ThePrint #EyeOnChina theprint.in/opinion/eye-on…

It's remarkably short-sighted that some scholars & policymakers in countries like Australia continue to frame Taiwan merely as a potential 'US conflict' and a conflict between the US & China. It's most certainly not. Taiwan is a self-governed country with real people. It's a…

'India’s ‘triple anxiety’—What Chinese media sees in Jaishankar’s Beijing visit' Sana Hashmi @sanahashmi1, fellow at Taiwan-Asia Exchange Foundation, writes ThePrint #EyeOnChina theprint.in/opinion/indias…

To be fair, he was in 🇨🇳 to attend the SCO Foreign Ministers’ meeting; it wasn’t a bilateral visit. That said, 🇮🇳 did use the opportunity to manage ties, but certainly not to the extent the Chinese are portraying it. Skipping the SCO would have made 🇮🇳 appear hostile to 🇨🇳 &…

This week, in my ThePrint's #EyeonChina column, I analysed the Chinese discourse on S. Jaishankar's China visit. I argue, Chinese narrative overlooks Beijing’s own quiet overtures and the broader pressures informing India’s measured approach. It underestimates the nuance of…

"On Taiwan, the question is not whether to join a future war, but rather how Australia can protect the status quo of peace." Maintaining the status quo in the Taiwan Strait & deterring a🇨🇳invasion is not only vital for🇦🇺but for India as well. A conflict in the region, &🇨🇳gaining…

There's an urgent need for Taiwan to develop a deeper & more direct understanding of India that's not filtered through foreign media lenses. To achieve this, Taiwan should consider establishing a dedicated think tank, such as a 'Taiwan Institute for India Studies.' It'd not only…

In international relations, the term that defines India and China’s recent tentative, incremental steps towards a stabler equilibrium is ‘hedging’. My latest. (Link in adjoining post)

Even Western media has echoed the Chinese propaganda's derogatory use of the elephant as a metaphor for India. For the record, India's national animal is the tiger. So next time, let’s call it a Tiger-Dragon tango, or better yet, a Tiger-Panda tango. bloomberg.com/news/newslette…

MEA India’s spokesperson’s remarks indicate otherwise.

If true, this is neither the right time nor the right move. A little more time & thought should be given to this. It's unclear how or why this rushed approach towards China is being pursued, & what happened to security threats supposedly taking precedence over other…

China's strategic community is growing more hawkish on India, with veiled threats surfacing in commentaries during @DrSJaishankar's visit. 💠Liu Zongyi from SIIS called 🇮🇳 a “chronic cancer” in the SCO, accusing it of obstructionism & urging 🇨🇳 to sideline Delhi & reform the…

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When you’re Taiwan, this is all a norm!

Jaishankar’s China visit, his 1st in 5 yrs, was ostensibly for SCO meet. But to many Chinese observers, it was no routine diplomatic engagement. Watch ThePrint #EyeOnChina with @sanahashmi1 on how Chinese media & commentators viewed Jaishankar's visit: youtu.be/BO8Pye-MTmg

Look at the distance between Japan, South Korea and India on one end and Australia and Indonesia on the other in terms of prioritizing economic ties with China/US