If there are any positive takeaways from India’s point of view, it is that Australia has come a long way from looking at India as a strategic threat. Abbott, for instance, seems keen to develop strategic ties with India and supply uranium for India’s nuclear power programme. Plus, Modi has said that a closer strategic partnership with Australia would support India’s economic goals, promote its security interests, including maritime security, and reinforce efforts to foster peace and stability in the extended continental and maritime neighbourhood. With its footprint covering more than 85 percent of the global economy, the G20 has the heft to pull the world away from a fratricidal trade war. However, the good money is on there being no big bang breakthroughs in Brisbane.
Posted on: Sat, 15 Nov 2014 05:52:12 +0000
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