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The writer is a former secretary in the external affairs ministry. He tweets at @ambkcsingh

French President Emmanuel Macron looks on as he speaks to the press with the Estonian prime minister following their meeting at the Elysee Palace in Paris, on October 28, 2020. (AFP)

K.C. Singh | Big sigh of relief for Europe: Will India find own...

President Macron won by a fairly comfortable margin of 58.2 per cent to 41.8 per cent for Ms Le Pen

27 April 2022 12:26 AM IST

Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif. (ANI)

K C Singh | Army, Sharifs start anew as Imran's govt implodes

The Pakistan Army was always closer to Shehbaz Sharif than his older brother Nawaz

12 April 2022 12:50 AM IST

Pakistans Prime Minister Imran Khan. (Photo:PTI)

K.C. Singh | Chaos or transition? The path ahead for Pakistan

It had been speculated for months that relations had soured between the Pakistan Army and its favourite politician Imran...

5 April 2022 12:58 AM IST

Chinese President Xi Jinping. (via AP)

K.C. Singh | Amid Beijing's overtures, Delhi needs to stand firm

Chinese President Xi Jinping has just six months left for the Communist Party's quinquennial national conference

27 March 2022 11:21 PM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi. (PTI)

K.C. Singh | After dragging its feet, fence-sitting on Ukraine, India...

The Narendra Modi government must, as the Americans say, put their money where their mouth is

3 March 2022 6:49 AM IST

Russian President Vladimir Putin. (AP)

K.C. Singh | Ukraine crisis poses a big challenge for India, world

The question then arises as to what does Mr Putin wish to achieve

22 Feb 2022 2:17 AM IST

Chinese President Xi Jinping, right, and Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan pose for a photo before their bilateral meeting at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, Sunday, Feb. 6, 2022. (AP)

K.C. Singh | To tackle Pak and China, India must divide & win

The question that arises is whether India too has a plan, beyond myth-making and reactive diplomacy

8 Feb 2022 1:26 AM IST

In this file photo taken on October 1, 2019, Chinese troops march during a military parade in Tiananmen Square in Beijing. (Representational photo:AFP)

K.C. Singh | How absolutist policy can make a nation less secure

Taking the cue from Jia, one needs to ask whether viewing the region through the prism of 'absolute national security'...

24 Jan 2022 11:47 PM IST

The storm of infection, as distinct from the waves in the past, comes quickly, runs through a community community and drops off equally fast. (Representational Image/ PTI)

K.C. Singh | Global friction, Omicron: Challenges for govt rising

According to several experts, being exposed to Omicron builds up antibodies that counter the Delta or other past strains

4 Jan 2022 3:22 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi during a meeting with the Foreign Ministers of Central Asian Countries, in New Delhi, Monday, December 20, 2021. (PTI)

K.C. Singh | As major powers jostle, world to face instability

Early this year, the foreign ministers of India, Israel, the United Arab Emirates and the US met in Israel to christen a...

21 Dec 2021 1:58 AM IST

President Joe Biden is not off the mark when he says that the challenge to liberal democracy as a system of governance is not yet over, nor perhaps shall ever be so. (Representational Image. AP)

K.C Singh | Biden red lines' welcome in global democracy push

A debate among political scientists has been persisting for some time over the state of democracies globally

7 Dec 2021 2:17 AM IST

PM Modi has suddenly backtracked by announcing on Gurupurab, associated with Guru Nanak, his governments decision to annul the three farm laws. Representational Image. (PTI)

K.C. Singh | Diverse dilemmas: Power for Modi, economy for Xi

Controversy again arose about Chinese disturbance of the status quo at the 3,488 kilometre-long Line of Actual Control

22 Nov 2021 2:46 AM IST