India has stopped underestimating Australia’s attractions
New Delhi is inexorably aligning its interests with the wider West. That has put Australia on the A-list of the Indian government’s international partners.
The almost startlingly rapid growth of Australia-India relations in recent years is a rare happy by-product of a tense, divided and more dangerous international system.
A “comprehensive strategic partnership” was declared in 2020. Australia is one of a handful of countries with which India holds annual leader-level summits. Remarkably, there were 10 Indian ministerial-level visits to Australia last year.
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Richard Maude is a senior fellow at the Asia Society Policy Institute
C. Raja Mohan is a senior fellow at the Asia Society Policy Institute
