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3:30 pm to 5:00 pm
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Brunei Gallery SOAS
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In this event, we will be in conversation with Dr. Joe Thomas Karackattu to explore the evolving dynamics of India-Taiwan relations, focusing on policy changes, bilateral opportunities, and emerging global realities shaping transactional diplomacy.

With a view to appraising the overall state of India's relations with Taiwan, the talk would lay out the changes in the policy ecosystem in Taiwan since 2016 and how the opportunities in the bilateral relationship with India (in the realm of trade, commerce, technology, education, etc) have fared. 

It would highlight some of the newer realities that are emerging globally which necessitate forging new international norms of transactional diplomacy in the bilateral ties between India and Taiwan.

Image via Unsplash by YEH-CHE WEI

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Dr Joe Thomas Karackattu

Dr Joe Thomas Karackattu is an Associate Professor with the Humanities and Social Sciences Department at IIT Madras. He was Fox Fellow (2008–2009) at Yale University and was also the inaugural Centenary Visiting Fellow (nominated award) at SOAS, University of London in 2013. Most recently he was a CISLI Fellow with the India-China Institute at the New School, New York (2017-19). 

Dr Karackattu studied Economics at St. Stephen's College (Delhi) and Chinese studies at Jawaharlal Nehru University (Delhi). He was awarded the "Srimathi Marti Annapurna Gurunath Award for Excellence in Teaching" 2024 from IIT Madras, and was previously recipient of the "Young Faculty Recognition Award" 2020 at IIT Madras. 

Besides authoring a book on India and Taiwan, and publishing several journal papers, Dr Karackattu has also made two non-fiction films on the subject of diplomatic history which have been screened at invitational events in the United States (Duke University, NYU, Penn State University, University of Pittsburgh, New School, Yale University & SUNY Binghamton), Singapore, Qatar, UAE, Denmark, France, and across India and China.