Its strategy is to make reassuring noises, without giving in on the big issues.
Analysts here believe that the visit would not have been organised had France not been prepared to make encouraging noises.
At a meeting in Sharm el-Sheikh with Yusuf Raza Gilani, his Pakistani counterpart, Mr Singh had been expected, at least in India, to make encouraging noises on restoring a four-year diplomatic process between the old foes.
Meanwhile, European policymakers are starting to make very angry noises about Asian countries not doing their bit.
Mr Cameron believes the BBC needs to "show grip" and Lord Patten "has started to make the right noises, " they added.
The answer, at least in the short run, seems to be to make vague reassuring noises while pledging billions in taxpayer funds for a poorly thought-out economic "stimulus" package.
The moans about their inability to make profits safely sounds all too close to the noises from old-style airlines before the arrival of low-cost carriers.
"HD Voice, " also known as wideband audio, is a technology designed to make a caller's voice, and other noises, sound on phone calls as close as possible to how they do in person.
"You can go with the gadfly--or at least make noises like you are--and attempt to shake up the board and get them to act, " he says.
Over the following nine minutes, air traffic controllers frantically tried to make contact with the cockpit, from which only heavy breathing and electronic noises could be heard before the microphone finally went dead.
You also are on your own when navigating hearing-aid providers, where you risk paying too much for hearing aids that make your life miserable because they don't fit, are hard to operate and overamplify background noises.
Green gestures, liberal noises on race and sexuality and a focus on public services and poverty all helped him to make progress.
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