China turns blatant rejecting Trump's offer to mediate in Sino-India border standoff; Know more-

Beijing, May 29: Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian on Friday has rejected the US President Donald Trump's offer to mediate in the current Sino-India border standoff, saying, "Two countries are capable of solving the issue through dialogue and we do not need the intervention of the third party." Reacting on Trump's offer Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian said, India and China do not want the "intervention" from a third party to resolve the current military standoff.

 

“Between China and India we have existing border-related mechanisms and communication channels”, Zhao told a media briefing here when asked about Trump’s offer. " And We are capable of properly resolving the issues between us through dialogue and consultation. We do not need the intervention of the third party," he said.

 

 

Trump on Wednesday offered to “mediate or arbitrate” the raging border dispute between India and China, saying he was “ready, willing and able” to ease the tensions, amid the continuing standoff between the armies of the two Asian giants. Trump on Wednesday offered to “mediate or arbitrate” the raging border dispute between India and China, saying he was “ready, willing and able” to ease the tensions, amid the continuing standoff between the armies of the two Asian giants. Trump on Thursday also said that he also spoke with Prime Minister Narendra Modi about the border conflict with China, adding that the Indian Prime Minister is not in a "good mood" over the "big conflict" with Beijing.

 

A day earlier, external affairs minister Anurag Srivastava has also said India is engaged with China to peacefully resolve the border row, in a carefully crafted reaction to Trump's offer to arbitrate between the two Asian giants to settle their decades-old dispute. “As I’ve told you, we are engaged with the Chinese side to peacefully resolve this issue,” Anurag Srivastava, had said.

 

While speaking to reporters at the White House on Thursday Trump also said he spoke to PM Narendra Modi and that the PM was in a “bad mood” over the “big conflict” with China. However, sources from the Modi government soon rejected Trump’s claims and said PM Modi last spoke to Donald Trump on April 4 and that too on the issue of hydroxychloroquine. Sources also said the two leaders never spoke on the dispute with China.

 

Several areas along the Line of Actual Control in Ladakh and North Sikkim have witnessed major military build-up by both the Indian and Chinese armies recently, in a clear signal of escalating tension and hardening of respective positions by the two sides even two weeks after they were engaged in two separate face-offs. Satellite images also show the presence of at least 16 tanks with a mix of infantry combat vehicles, though camouflaged. Flatbed trucks, excavator machines, dumper trucks too have been identified in the imagery, sources said, adding that these suggest permanent defenses are being prepared by the Chinese in the area.