OPINION: New Delhi’s foreign policy is fiercely independent Feature lekhaka-Jagdish N Singh India is close both to Russia and the US. But it conducts its China policy independent of either. The way our Defence Minister Rajnath Singh hosted his Chinese counterpart Li Shangfu during the recent SCO summit is a case in point. One of the apprehensions being voiced in certain sections of the contemporary international public opinion goes that India's foreign policy has, in the recent years, ceased to be independent. Some observers fear India has been too close to Russia to be friendly to the United States. Others...