US President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Narendra Modi will prepare to shake hands as they attend a joint press conference held at the White House in Washington, DC on February 13, 2025. Photo credit: Reuters
The government has rejected President Donald Trump’s offer to “help” to end India-China border tensions, which reflected previous offers to mediate after the 2020 Galwan clash. (February 13, 2025) in Washington with Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Modi did not respond to the offer, but Foreign Secretary Vikram Mithri explained that even if China responded sharply to Trump’s comments on the Indo-Pacific, the issue was being handled bilaterally. has been revealed.
“Whatever the issue we have with any of our neighbors, we have always adopted a bilateral approach to addressing these issues,” Mithri said in a 24-hour visit to the US. Finally, I told a journalist. “There is no difference between India and China either. Mithri mentions the resumption of bilateral dialogue mechanisms, including recent consultations and a visit to Beijing in January, and we have been working with them on bilateral planes. We’ve been discussing the issue,” he added.
Trump worked on a joint press conference to stop aside certain questions about India’s role in resolving the Russian-Ukraine conflict, saying China could have a role instead. .
“I think China is a very important player in the world. I think they can help us take over this war with Ukraine and Russia, and I look at India, I’m at the border. We see skirmishes, it’s very bad, and I think they’re continuing,” Trump said.
The Indian Army and the Chinese People’s Liberation Army are currently not talking about the conflict, especially after announcing that they resolved the final part of the standoff in October 2024 with the Line of Actual Control (LAC). .
“If I can help, I want to help, because it should be stopped. It’s been going on for a long time and is very violent. It’s very violent, but China and India and Russia. I hope we and all of us can get along well,” Trump continued. When asked the same question, Modi reiterated the 2022 formulation to Russian President Vladimir Putin, “This is not an era of war,” and told India “not neutral, it is on the side of peace.”
About denuclearization
Trump then continued his conversation on the global nuclear weapons threat, saying he would meet with his Chinese and Russian counterparts, Xi Jinping and Mr, as soon as he dealt with the conflict in Ukraine and Gaza. .
However, Trump is not very friendly about the emerging BRICS group consisting of Russia, China and India, and has invited new members from Iran, the United Arab Emirates, Egypt and Indonesia. Previously, during his announcement that mutual tariffs would be imposed worldwide, the threat of “BRICS dead” was “a threat of 100% tariffs on BRICS countries if they tried to avoid the dollar. He said.
It mentions India and the US to hold a conference on the Indian Middle Eastern Europe and Economic Corridor (IMEC) and I2U2 (India, Israel, United Arab Emirates, United States). In the Gaza conflict, Trump said he intends to build a trade route “from India to Israel and Italy” and the US.
China, Pakistani Frey’s remarks
Meanwhile, both Beijing and Islamabad have clashed with the US president over providing F-35 fighter jets to India, and the launch of the Autonomous Systems Industry Alliance for Industry (Asia) including the initiative of the Indo-Pacific Region Joint Statement Partnerships including lifting.
“No one should make China an issue in relations and cooperation between nations or try to incite politics and conflict in the bloc,” Guo Zi-Kung, a spokesman for the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said on Friday, “Asia, a spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of China.” He added that the Pacific is a great example. It is not a arena for peace and development, geopolitical games. “He also said that “block politics” would not keep the Asia-Pacific region “peaceful and stable” to the Quad Group. He warned with a veiled reference.
A spokesman for Pakistan’s Foreign Ministry said that Pakistan is “deeply interested” in the advanced military relocation from the US to India. “Such steps underscore the military imbalances in the region and undermine strategic stability,” the spokesman added.
Published – February 14th, 2025, 10:31pm
