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Salvatore Babones

Look at the data, not the drama, in weighing up Modi’s India

Top Western media outlets don’t always have much good to say about Narendra Modi’s government. Some of the allegations don’t stand up.

In the wake of the rescheduled Quad leaders’ summit in Japan, India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi is following Anthony Albanese back to Sydney for a big get-together with Australia’s half-million-strong Indian community.

The Quad is, nominally, an alignment of Indo-Pacific democracies. No one questions that Australia and Japan are democracies, and although many have their doubts about the United States, few responsible institutions take such doubts seriously.

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Salvatore Babones is an associate professor at the University of Sydney and the author of Australia’s Universities: Can They Reform?

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