Banality of PM's foreign jaunts

Spurned by his own party, mocked by the opposition and hounded by the media, prime minister Manmohan Singh has sought refuge in foreign climes in recent months. So after his rather perfunctory trips to the US and Southeast Asia, it was the turn of Russia and China earlier this week. Both states are important in their own ways for Indian foreign policy priorities. And yet at the end of the prime minister’s trips, there is little to show for any substantive achievement.

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