In a period of two weeks, Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited the US, Israel, Portugal, Netherlands, and Hamburg, Germany, for the G20 meeting. The total number of bilateral meetings with heads of state/government at the G20 was a mind-boggling nine sit-downs, two pull-asides (not counting the one with Chinese President Xi Jinping), and several other conversations with US President Donald Trump, Russian President Vladimir Putin and others.
Why were these visits/interactions so important? Quite simply, in the short period of about six months or so, the world we live in has suddenly become a more dangerous place. This is
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