Narendra Modi
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- Foreign relations
Modi wants Australia’s uranium to power India’s data centre boom
Australia and India struck a historic deal to allow uranium exports in 2014, but there have been only negligible shipments since. That might be about to change.
- Matthew Knott
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- Opinion
- India
Young people are revolting. India’s ‘cockroach’ campaign is just the latest example
Powerful Asian leaders like Narendra Modi and Xi Jinping are preoccupied by the prospect of young people upsetting the social order. They have legitimate cause for concern.
- Peter Hartcher
The world’s biggest democracy is about to become a one-party state
Despite economic headwinds, election defeats for two major rivals this week have left India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi looking increasingly unassailable.
- Alex Travelli, Hari Kumar and Pragati K.B.
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- Foreign relations
Crisafulli to lobby Washington to secure Queensland Quad summit
The premier is ramping up his push for US President Donald Trump and other Quad leaders to hold their next leaders’ summit in Queensland.
- Cameron Atfield
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- Foreign relations
Inside David Crisafulli’s ambitious bid to bring Trump and co to Queensland
A day after his request to meet with the federal government was knocked back, the Queensland premier directly lobbied two foreign PMs.
- Cameron Atfield
China is rising, but the challenge is not from China alone
An autocratic alliance is gaining in strength while the democracies grow weak and divided.
- Andrew Neil
Dozens killed in stampede at political rally in southern India
Vijay, one of Tamil cinema’s most bankable actors for three decades, has drawn massive crowds to his public meetings since launching his political party in 2024.
- Praveen Paramasivam and Devika Madhusudhanan Nair
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- World politics
Xi’s big parade was much more than a message to Trump. Should we be worried?
Wednesday’s extravagant display of raw power on the streets of Beijing belies a more troubling shift in geopolitical relations.
- Michael Koziol
Smiles and clasped hands as Xi, Putin and Modi try to signal unity
The leaders’ display of friendship in China was aimed at projecting an alternative to US global leadership, even as serious differences among them remain.
- David Pierson and Mujib Mashal
- Opinion
- China relations
Trump says he’s determined to weaken China. He’s doing the opposite
The world’s two most populous nations are restoring relations. It’s another strategic win for Xi Jinping and another diplomatic own goal by Donald Trump.
- Peter Hartcher