1958, 1994 and 2021: India Continues to be an Onlooker in Taiwan Straits Crisis

The brazenness with which China’s air force scrambled a record number of aircraft across the Taiwan Straits in the last few days is in sharp contrast to the strategic calmness with which the government and the people in Taiwan responded. For, the Taiwanese knew the antics of China’s Communist Party for long—having engaged with them in pitched military and diplomatic battles for more than seven decades. China sent 38 aircraft on its National Day on October 1, ramping them further to 39 aircraft the next day and crossing and violating…