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a speech ahead of the Munich Security Conference the billionaire
investor Soros on Thursday criticised India’s Prime Minister
Narendra Modi saying India was a democracy but Modi was not a
democrat.
India’s Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar told a
conference in Sydney on Saturday that Soro's comments were
typical of a "Euro Atlantic view".
He said there was “a debate and conversation that we must have
on democracy”, including whose values defined a democracy as the
world rebalanced and became less Euro Atlantic.
"He is old, rich, opinionated and dangerous, because what
happens is, when such people and such views and such
organisations - they actually invest resources in shaping
narratives," Jaishankar said in a response to a question about
Soros at the Raisina@Sydney conference.
He said India's voters decided "how the country should run".
"It worries us. We are a country that went through colonialism,
we know the dangers of what happens when there’s outside
interference," he added.
The Australian Strategic Policy Institute think-tank hosted a
one-day conference where Jaishankar highlighted in a speech the
urgent need to "de-risk the global economy" as India took over
the G20 presidency.
He earlier met with Australia’s Prime Minister Anthony Albanese.
Australia is seeking to increase its trade with India to reduce
its reliance on China, and has formed the Quad security group
with India, which also includes the United States and Japan.
(Reporting by Kirsty Needham; Editing by Michael Perry)
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