At the Ketagalan Forum, an annual prestigious platform hosted by Taiwan to discuss strategic and security issues mostly linked to the Indo-Pacific, President Lai Ching-te hit the ground running.
“Authoritarianism has grown and is becoming more aggressive. It’s now a challenge at the global level,” he said in his opening remarks to an audience that also had a former Japanese PM, U.S. diplomat Nikki Haley and a delegation from India led by former Deputy NSA Pankaj Saran.
On Chinese aggression, Lai didn’t hold back and made mention of a four-point action plan. In this chat with Associate Editor Amitabh P. Revi, StratNews Global Editor-in-Chief Nitin A. Gokhale, who was part of the Indian delegation to Taiwan, details what he saw and heard. Also, what Taiwan wants from India and how India can leverage the association.
