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| There has been zero communication between U.S. President Donald Trump & Indian PM Modi regarding the recent India-China border dispute. An anonymous government source told news outlets. |
An official source said on Friday that Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi had not spoken to US President Donald Trump about the border tension between India and China, adding that Modi was worried about border tensions following Trump's proposal.
'since the beginning of May, the western Himalayas have been facing a neighboring army along the disputed border.' Indian military officials stated.
'They have a big dispute with India and China two countries with 1.4 billion people two countries with very powerful militaries,' Trump told media outlets.
And India is not happy, and perhaps China is not happy. But I can tell you that I spoke to Prime Minister Modi and he is not in a good mood about what is happening with China.
Following the comments in a Twitter post yesterday, Trump said the United States had told India and China that it was ready to settle the border dispute for the first time by engaging itself in Sino-Chinese diplomacy. But Indian officials were surprised by Trump's latest remarks.
'There has been no recent contact between Prime Minister Modi and President Trump. The last conversation between them was on April 4 on the subject of hydroxychloroquine,' a government official told the media.
On Trump's offer of mediation between the two nuclear-armed countries, the source said, "The Indian Foreign Ministry has also made it clear that we are in direct contact with the Chinese through established mechanisms and diplomatic contacts."
On Friday, China's foreign ministry said it did not need a third party to mediate. The two countries claim thousands of kilometers of territory in each other's possession along a large part of the Himalayas.
The two countries went to war in 1962 and could not settle the border, signaling the occasional flare-up between the border forces.
Military observers say one possible reason for the recurring tensions in the Ladakh sector is India's attempt to build a new air force and roads near the de facto border in an effort to bridge the gap with China's advanced infrastructure.
A source said that during the talks to resolve the crisis, the Chinese side has demanded India to stop all construction activities in the region, saying that the entire region is in dispute.
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