The 2022 Observer Research Foundation (ORF) survey titled “India @75 and the WORLD” had an interesting result. One of the questions forwarded to the respondents was, “Which country could become India’s most important partner in the coming years in the Indo-Paci"c?” Japan and Australia were the most preferred nations, with 31 percent and 30 percent among the choices. !e list of countries also included Taiwan for the respondents. Taiwan received 5 percent as the "rst preference, the least among the other nations of options given