The Trump administration has rallied to India against Chinese army incursions into Ladakh.
Washington:
The United States is in talks with India and China to help resolve border tensions, President Donald Trump said on Saturday.
“This is a very difficult situation. We are talking with India. We are talking with China. They have a big problem there,” Trump told reporters at the White House before boarding Marine 1 in drive to his first post. COVID-19 electoral rally in Oklahoma.
“They have struck, and we will see what happens. We will try to help them,” said Trump about his assessment of the situation between India and China.
In the past few days, the entire Trump administration has rallied to India against Chinese army raids on the Indian side of the real line of control in eastern Ladakh.
No less than 20 Indian soldiers were killed in violent clashes against Chinese intruders in the Galwan Valley in Ladakh earlier this week. According to US intelligence sources, more than 35 Chinese soldiers were also killed in the skirmish.
The United States has accused China of escalating border tensions with India and other neighbors by trying to take advantage of these busy countries to fight the coronavirus pandemic.
“The People’s Liberation Army (PLA) has intensified border tensions with India, the most populous democracy in the world. It is militarizing the South China Sea and illegally claiming more territory there, threatening vital shipping lanes”, said US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in a statement. great speech about China a day earlier.
In his virtual speech on “Europe and the Chinese challenge” at the 2020 Copenhagen Democracy Summit on Friday, Pompeo described the ruling Chinese Communist Party as a “rogue actor”.
Earlier this week, White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany said the president was aware of the situation and that the United States was monitoring the situation between Indian and Chinese forces along with actual control in eastern Ladakh.
In a June 2 phone call that Trump had with Prime Minister Modi, they discussed the situation on the Indo-Chinese border, McEnany said.
“Trump and (PM) Modi have a tremendous relationship and trust with each other,” said Al Mason, co-chair of the Trump Victory Indian American Finance Committee, adding that statements by the White House, the State Department and the Embassy of the United States. in New Delhi is a reflection of this.
Speaking in favor of India, Texas congressman Lance Gooden said that China cannot be trusted.
“As more news comes out of the deadly conflict between China and India, China once again appears to be a bad aggressive player,” said the Republican congressman.
“The CCP (Chinese Communist Party) can never be taken at its word,” said Gooden in a tweet.
On the floor of the Senate, the majority leader in the Senate, Mitch McConnell, said that “on earth, in order to monopolize the territory, the PLA seems to have caused the most violent shock between China and the India since these nations went to war in 1962 “.
American experts believe that the latest Chinese behavior will shift India to China.
“Even before the last explosion, a majority of Indian strategists saw Chinese assertiveness as India’s biggest foreign policy challenge. This resulted in a tacit but unmistakable oscillation towards the United States,” said Jeff Smith from The Heritage Foundation think tank.
“Bullying American partners and allies must come at a cost,” said Smith in a tweet.
