ISAS Briefs

India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi's official visit to Australia from 16 to 18 November 2014 , besides Chinese President Xi Jinping's state visit to the same country at the same time , have reveal ed the growing relevance of both Beijing and New Delhi to the Indo - Pacific region. Surely, the two leaders were, in any case, scheduled to attend the Group of 20 (G20) summit in Brisban e on 15 and 16 November . This must have suited Australia's Prime Minister Tony Abbott in deciding to play host to Xi Jinping and Modi , on parallel tracks, after that multilateral summit. However, such a logistical nicety has been totally eclipsed by the high tone and tenor of the se simultaneous bilateral visits to Australia by Xi Jinping and Modi at this time . Relevant to these two events is a larger regional and global context that concern s China and India , albeit in different fields