Australia flags democracies’ trade swing from China to India
CANBERRA: Australian special envoy and former Prime Minister Tony Abbott said a trade agreement between his nation and India would signal the "democratic world's tilt faraway from ChinaAbbott visited New Delhi last week as Australia's special trade envoy for India because the Australian government gives priority to sealing a bilateral trade deal.
In an opinion piece likely to anger Beijing that was published within the Australian newspaper on Monday, Abbott said the "answer to almost every question about China is India With the world's other emerging superpower becoming more belligerent almost by the day, it's in everyone's interests that India take its rightful place among the nations as quickly as possible," Abbott wrote.
"Because trade deals are about politics the maximum amount as econ...