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WEF Davos 2018: Why the world is watching Modi at the Cannes of capitalism

Modi will be the third Indian prime minister after P V Narasimha Rao and H D Deve Gowda to speak at Davos

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Sai Manish
As Narendra Modi becomes the first Indian prime minister in two decades to attend the World Economic Forum (WEF) at Davos, many eyes in the annual bazaar of global capitalism will be on him. Chinese President Xi Jinping set the ball rolling while speaking at Davos last year. Xi’s speech, at a time when China will soon overtake the US as the world’s biggest economy, was re-assuring in the age of growing American antipathy to globalisation. Xi had assured the world that China, like the developed West, will not look inward or turn its back on global economic integration.

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