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| India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi / Yonhap |
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi flew into Australia on Monday, aiming to strengthen economic ties by tapping into his country's fastest-growing diaspora.
Modi landed in Sydney, the last stop on his Asia-Pacific tour, looking to assert India's role as a regional power in the face of China's growing influence.
Indians are the second-largest diaspora community in Australia after the British, with 673,000 Indian-born citizens living in the country of 26 million.
"The diaspora is the most important bridge in the India-Australia bilateral business relationship," said Jodi McKay, national chair of the Australia India Business Council. "Prime Minister Modi understood that long before Australia was able to grasp that," she told AFP. (AFP)
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