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For a country on track to have the world's largest population by 2030 and one of the world's largest economies by 2050, there is no doubt that India will be consequential for New Zealand. Even if the trade relationship is put aside, India matters. It is also true that the relationship is set to become more complicated, as India grows and seeks to put its own mark on world affairs. But differences aside, India and New Zealand are clearly of strategic value to each other: in the Indian Ocean region, in the Pacific, in the Quad and as members of the wider Indo-Pacific region where many of India's values and interests directly align with New Zealand's.
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