Torunika Roy

Research Associate, Korea Chair @CSDR_India | Phd, JNU | 이화여대 '19 | Korea Foundation Fellow, 2024 | East Asia and the Indo-Pacifc

[Torunika Roy @TorunikaR]

🔖 New report out!

I explore why a dedicated 🇮🇳🇯🇵🇰🇷 tech minilateral is needed now more than ever.

@MohanCRaja @HappymonJacob @RokEmbIndia
@WongiChoe @Kyunghoon_Kim_ @JapaninIndia @KoreaFoundation @sandipmishraJNU

[CSDR @CSDR_India]

🚨🚨New Report🚨🚨

"Toward a Trilateral Tech Framework: Connecting India, Japan, and South Korea in the Indo-Pacific" by @TorunikaR, makes a compelling case for a purpose-built 🇮🇳🇰🇷🇯🇵minilateral that leverages complementary national strengths - India's digital economy and human capital, Japan's precision manufacturing and standards diplomacy, and South Korea's semiconductor and electronics leadership.
🔗https://t.co/5HxXTXTXa2

@HappymonJacob @LtGenHooda @MohanCRaja @Harpoonleader @KoreaFoundation @RokEmbIndia @JapaninIndia @IndianEmbTokyo @IndiainROK

[CSDR @CSDR_India]

🚨New Issue Alert: Korea Chair Bulletin (June-July 2026) by @CSDR_India

What’s inside:
📰Political updates
🪖Defense and strategic news
🤝🏻India-South Korea bilateral affairs

🖇️https://t.co/pVFdVDpSpD

@MohanCRaja
@HappymonJacob
@KoreaFoundation
@TorunikaR

[CSIS Korea Chair @CSISKoreaChair]

🇰🇷🇦🇺 The G7’s Indo-Pacific Gap and Trump’s 2027 Opportunity

In his recent article, @CSISGeopolitics @VictorDCha argues that South Korea and Australia already outperform several current G7 members across 300+ indicators covering economic scale, tech capacity, defense contribution, and governance, but they remain outside the room where those issues get decided.

As he puts it, the G7's expansion into a "Democratic G9" would be a test of whether the advanced democracies can still adapt and rebuild global rules and norms before crisis makes such adaptation unavoidable.

Read the full piece @Diplomat_APAC: https://t.co/SMhbQDQ9aq

[Kyunghoon Kim @Kyunghoon_Kim_]

A Korean company, APACT, is participating as a technology and knowledge partner!

[Happymon Jacob @HappymonJacob]

China-India relations appear to be on the mend.

But India's China challenge is not going to disappear.

So Delhi appears to have decided to engage & balance China, simultenously.

But is doing an act of doublespeak or lack of strategic clarity?

In my column in HT today, I make an argument from "political simultaneity".

[CSIS Korea Chair @CSISKoreaChair]

Why Japan and South Korea Won’t Go Nuclear I @ForeignAffairs

@CSIS @VictorDCha and @KristiGovella @JapanChair argue that while speculation among analysts, experts, and scholars that America’s two key allies in the Indo-Pacific could finally pursue nuclear weapons has intensified, despite the fever pitch of the debate, the worry that South Korea and Japan are on the brink of nuclearization is exaggerated.

📖 Read now: https://t.co/eArvX4U7Z1
📺 Watch our event: https://t.co/l0GqvODZKN

[Institute of Chinese Studies(中国研究所) @ics_delhi]

#ICS_WednesdaySeminar📚
#keytakeaways✏

Missed our Wednesday Seminar on 𝟏𝟓 𝐉𝐮𝐥𝐲 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟔? Here are the key takeaways from @TorunikaR's discussion, chaired by @DrGovindKelkar.

[C. Raja Mohan @MohanCRaja]

C Raja Mohan writes: Today’s wars in Iran and Ukraine remind us of the twin crises in Iraq and Soviet Union during 1991; The biggest lesson for India from 1991 is not about diplomacy but about internal reform.

https://t.co/OrhsPFZDiF

[Institute of Chinese Studies(中国研究所) @ics_delhi]

#SeminarHighlights

📷 WATCH NOW:
Understanding South Korea's Declining Fertility Rates: A "Critical Consciousness" Framework

Speaker: @TorunikaR
Chair: @DrGovindKelkar

YouTube Link: https://t.co/9kvfYlsPIv

[ANI @ANI]

Major push for Indigenous Chip Design & IP Ownership - India aims to develop its own intellectual property (IP) in all six critical semiconductor segments, RF, compute, memory, power management, sensors, and network, to strengthen electronics and defence manufacturing. The goal is to move beyond assembly and services toward a ‘product nation’ with domestic chip design capabilities: Sources

[Rintaro Nishimura | 西村凜太郎 @RinNishimura]

Asahi reported today that Minister of Defense Koizumi Shinjiro is arranging to travel to India in mid-August to discuss strengthening defense cooperation and cooperation on defense equipment transfers. PM Takaichi visited India earlier this month.

https://t.co/CLUBRBdNf2

[Institute of Chinese Studies(中国研究所) @ics_delhi]

#ICS_WednesdaySeminar
Happening soon!

Understanding South Korea's Declining Fertility Rates: A "Critical Consciousness" Framework

Speaker: @TorunikaR
Chair: @DrGovindKelkar
15 July 2026 @ 3PM IST

Reg: https://t.co/zzrBpCguFG
Details: https://t.co/ydi9zMiyzP

[Kyunghoon Kim @Kyunghoon_Kim_]

India–IAN Summits over!

PM Modi's visits to key Indo-Pacific partners have concluded.

The three summits produced an extensive set of outcomes:
20 items with Indonesia,
19 with Australia, and
18 with New Zealand.

A thread on key themes that stand out.

(1/n)

[Torunika Roy @TorunikaR]

In my latest for @southkoreapro, I write that India's evolving defense priorities offer South Korea a major opportunity, but lasting success will require co-development, localization, and long-term partnerships.

🔗 https://t.co/Qh7NNGW3nk

@CSDR_India @MohanCRaja @HappymonJacob

[CSDR @CSDR_India]

Delighted to host HE ONO Keiichi, Ambassador of Japan to India and Bhutan (@JapaninIndia), for a discussion on
"Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's Visit to India: Assessing Outcomes and the Future of India-Japan Ties"

Expertly moderated by Amb Sanjay Kumar Verma & introduced by @HappymonJacob

@GenHooda @Harpoonleader @NayanimaBasu @ashokkkantha @rivagdas @MohanCRaja

[Mason ヨンハク @mason_8718]

For the past week, rumors have been circulating regarding the purchase of KF-21 by the Philippines or Malaysia, but nothing has been officially announced. The rumors suggest that Korea will provide a loan covering 70% of the cost and build MRO facilities for 20 KF-21s for the Philippine Air Force.
I am not saying the sources are incorrect at all. It simply means that the good news will become clear in a little while. Surprisingly, just a week ago, KAI officially announced plans to export over 200 KF-21s to countries associated with the T-50 and FA-50, as well as those close to KAI.
The countries mentioned were Indonesia, Poland, Malaysia, the Philippines, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Iraq, Thailand, and Egypt.
Since KAI has been consistently coordinating pricing, loans, configurations, and timelines with specific nations for the past two years, the expected outcomes with each country are being evaluated positively.

In particular, this year is expected to be exciting in many ways, as KAI is presenting a bundle to various entities that includes not only the KF-21 but also additional FA-50 Block-70s, long-range missiles, and medium unmanned combat aircraft.

[이재명 @Jaemyung_Lee]

인도와 뉴질랜드 양국의 우정과 발전을 기원합니다.

भारत और न्यूजीलैंड दोनों देशों की दोस्ती और प्रगति के लिए शुभकामनाएं।

Wishing for the friendship and progress of both India and New Zealand

@narendramodi @chrisluxonmp

[C. Raja Mohan @MohanCRaja]

On Asia's management of an assertive China and an unpredictable America:

[C. Raja Mohan @MohanCRaja]

C Raja Mohan writes: Beyond US and China, India and other Asian powers are building a ‘G Minus Two’ for Indo-Pacific

https://t.co/xylHwC7ODS

[Sidhant Sibal @sidhant]

Breaking: India, Indonesia sign MoU on Brahmos, Astra missile annouced.

[CSDR @CSDR_India]

✨In our latest report, "Crisis as Catalyst: Pakistan’s Internal Political Transformation, 2025–2026",
@BashirAliAbbas examines how the April–May 2025 crisis with India catalyzed the Pakistan Army’s consolidation of domestic control under Asim Munir. Tracking developments chronologically across three fronts- military, political, and judicial- it argues that the crisis let Munir move from expanding power within Pakistan’s hybrid system to changing the system itself.

🔗https://t.co/SHONhY7JI0

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