“Although India's GDP per person is still only about half of China, its growth is strong and economic prospects are broad and population is likely to overtake China's in couple of decades. This is why people now speak of the Indo-Pacific.
It is now the focus of the world economic dynamism. With China, India is the rising superpower of Asia—the emerging superpower that is already a democracy,” he said. With Modi becoming the first Indian Prime Minister to address the Australian Parliament, Abbott said it was long due that a leader of world's largest democracy addressed the House.
Praising Modi for his electoral victory in May this year, Abbott said there was a lot to learn from Modi and his working style and how he got the bureaucracy got going.
