Australia's Endorsement of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi Gains Momentum.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi was welcomed by around 20,000 cheering fans at a Sydney stadium during his second visit to Australia as his country's leader. Modi told the audience he expected trade between the two countries will double in the next five years. The Indian diaspora accounts for only 3% of Australia’s population but is the nation’s fastest-growing ethnic minority. Modi is the only leader of the so-called Quad nations to continue with his scheduled visit to Australia after U.S. President Joe Biden pulled out of a planned meeting of the group in Sydney to return to Washington to focus on debt limit talks.