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SOUTH CHINA MORNING
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Thursday, January 3,
2002
Taipei 'fostering
military ties with India'
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| Taiwan and India are secretly
developing military co-operation despite a lack of diplomatic ties,
a report said yesterday.
The two countries had started exchanging military intelligence
and Taipei had sent a military attache to India, the
Chinese-language United Daily News reported.
India's top air force officials visited
the island some time ago to exchange views with Taiwan's air force
commander Chen Chao-min, the paper quoted sources as saying.
Contacts between the two sides started during the administration of
former Taiwan president Lee Teng-hui, it added. Taiwan defence
sources said developing military co-operation with India was like
setting an ambush on China's backdoor, the paper said.
India recognises Beijing, instead of Taipei, as the legitimate
Government of all of China, but ties between the two neighbours have
often been rocky, with Beijing maintaining warm relations with
Pakistan.
Closer military links between India and Taiwan might trigger US
concern that Taipei could some day obtain nuclear weapons from India
to deter the constant missile threat from China.
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