Deputy NSA of Taiwan set to participate in global summit

Hsu, deputy secretary-general of Taiwan’s National Security Council and advisor at Taiwan Foundation for Democracy, will be part of a panel discussion

Published on: Mar 17, 2025, 14:48:07 IST

By Rezaul H Laskar

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Taiwan’s deputy national security adviser Hsu Szu-chien is among the speakers at this year’s Raisina Dialogue, perhaps the first time that a senior Taiwanese official has publicly participated in an official event in the country.

Hsu is visiting India with a Taiwanese delegation. (Raisina Dialogue | Official X account)

Hsu is visiting India with a Taiwanese delegation that includes I-Chung Lai, president of The Prospect Foundation, a government-affiliated think tank that focuses on global politics and economy and security and strategic challenges and advises the government.

It is not usual for visits by senior Taiwanese security officials to be publicly acknowledged. Though senior Taiwanese officials attended Raisina Dialogue in past, their participation was kept low-key and they had no public engagements, people aware of the matter said.

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Hsu, deputy secretary-general of Taiwan’s National Security Council and advisor at Taiwan Foundation for Democracy, will be part of a panel discussion on the theme of “Stress Test: Treaties face moment of truth” on Monday, according to the schedule for the Raisina Dialogue.

Other members of the panel include Władysław Teofil Bartoszewski, secretary of state in Poland’s foreign ministry and experts from US and Germany. In recent months, Hsu was among two senior members of Taiwan’s government who travelled to US to meet members of President Donald Trump’s transition team. These visits came at a time when China’s military stepped up its activities near Taiwan Strait.

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Rezaul H Laskar
Rezaul Hasan Laskar is Foreign Editor with the Hindustan Times, which he joined in 2015. He began as a journalist in his hometown of Shillong in northeast India and has worked in newspapers and wire services over the years. He moved to New Delhi in 1997 and initially focused on defence, national security, Jammu and Kashmir and the northeast, while also working of foreign policy and international relations. He has been part of the media delegation accompanying PMs on foreign visits and has reported from destinations ranging from Tibet to Ukraine. Between 2007 and 2013, he was the Press Trust of India correspondent in Pakistan, one of only two Indian journalists allowed to report from the country. He extensively covered Pakistan’s domestic politics and the life of the common people, as well as the fallout of the 2008 Mumbai attacks on India-Pakistan relations and the subsequent trial in Pakistan of the suspects involved in the attack. As part of his reportage in Pakistan, he travelled the breadth of the country, from the Swat Valley to Balochistan. Reza’s first gig in journalism was writing a weekly music column, and music – especially classic rock – remains a keen interest. He is also a movie buff and a keen photographer.Read More

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