Ties that bind: On India-Australia ties and the Modi visit

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s three-day visit to Australia this week coincided with a year since Labour Party leader Anthony Albanese was elected Prime Minister, and gave a fillip to growing bipartisan ties.

PWOnlyIAS

May 25, 2023

Context:

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s three-day visit to Australia this week coincided with a year since Labour Party leader Anthony Albanese was elected Prime Minister, and gave a fillip to growing bipartisan ties.

Real reason, Real Power:

  • The Indian PM’s Sydney sojourn was much more in the spotlight, particularly his address to the Indian community as well as the address to business groups. 
  • The Indian PM said that the “real reason, the real power†behind the bilateral relations came from people of Indian-origin. 

The announcements:

  • Opening an Australian consulate in Bengaluru and an Indian consulate in Brisbane.
  • An agreement on Migration and Mobility.
  • The finalization of terms of reference for an India-Australia Green Hydrogen Task Force.

Part of the substantive agenda:

  • Defense and security ties
  • Cooperation on renewable energy, and critical minerals
  • Maintaining a free and open Indo-Pacific
  • Dealing with an aggressive China

Concerns by India:

  • Mr. Modi repeated his concerns over vandalism and attacks defacing community centres and temples with pro-Khalistani, anti-India and anti-Modi graffiti. 

Conclusion:

While the growing incidents of attacks in Australia may be cause for worry, it is by no means clear that giving them centre-stage during such visits is conducive to strengthening the common understanding between both countries, or in the best interests of the “three D’s†Mr. Modi said bind the two countries today — Democracy, Diaspora and Dosti [Friendship].

Additional Information:

Background:

  • The Consulate General of India was first opened as a Trade Office in Sydney in 1941. 
  • Historic low when the Australian Government condemned India’s 1998 nuclear tests.
  • In 2014, Australia signed a Uranium supply deal with India, the first of its kind with a country that is a non-signatory to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, in recognition of India’s “impeccable’ non-proliferation record. 
  • Shared values like pluralistic, Westminster-style democracies, Commonwealth traditions, expanding economic engagement, strong, vibrant, secular, and multicultural democracies, a free press, an independent judicial system. 
  • 2+2 Ministerial Dialogue
  • Malabar Exercises

News Source: The Hindu

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