Epoch Times
Date: July 23, 2020
By: Venus Upadhayaya
Previously, India, wary of China’s sensitivity over any ties with Taiwan, had appointed lower-ranking officials, and experts say this appointment is significant in showing India’s desire for more interaction with the island nation.
The just-announced envoy, Gourangalal Das, is currently handling the India–United States relationship in India’s Ministry of External Affairs, according to a July 12 report by the Indian Express, an Indian national daily.
Dr. Rajeswari Pillai Rajagopalan, a distinguished fellow with the Observer Research Foundation, told The Epoch Times in an email from New Delhi: “India’s recent appointment of a new envoy to Taiwan has a message for China, one would assume. It could have been a routine affair, but the fact that India went ahead with the change in the middle of the [Galwan] stand-off is important.” [FULL STORY]