In January this year, the public broadcaster Doordarshan aired a special broadcast on reelection of Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen which upset China.
So what do you make of it when someone like Congress leader Adhir Chowdhury puts out an offensive and racist tweet against China? Who really benefits from this?
The Chinese Embassy's counsellor Ji Rong had recently issued a statement criticising The Hindu newspaper for providing a platform to Taiwan's health minister.
It now emerges that on the 31st of December, Taiwan had written to the WHO (World Health Organisation) raising questions about the human-to-human contact aspect of the virus and the WHO had summarily ignored Taiwan.