SME Times News Bureau | 09 Feb, 2017
As Taiwan adopts a new foreign
policy, a women's parliamentary delegation from that country will
visit India to engage with their counterparts here next week.
The
delegation would tour the parliament complex on February 13, Taiwan's
Representative to India Chung Kwang Tien said on Wednesday at an
event to mark the first anniversary of the formation of the
Taiwan-India Parliamentarians' Friendship Forum here.
Taiwan
last year adopted the New Southbound Policy that seeks to engage
proactively with six South Asian nations, including India, the 10
member states of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean),
Australia and New Zealand.
Tien said that India was "not
one of the, but the most" important country for this new policy
of Taiwan.
He said that bilateral trade between India and
Taiwan increased by five times from 2000 to reach $7 billion in
2014.
Stating that 1,143 Indian students were studying in
Taiwan as of 2016, he said the East Asian nation, officially called
the Republic of China, will offer scholarships to talented Indian
students from this year.
Speaking on the occasion, Lok Sabha
MP from Sikkim P.D. Rai said that there were a lot of things in
common between India and Taiwan.
He said that if the two
countries engaged with each other more actively, the bilateral trade
figure of $7 billion could be easily surpassed.