The new US administration backed India on border dispute with China and said that it’s concerned over Beijing’s attempts to intimidate its neighbours.
US State Department spokesman Ned Price said that the US government is monitoring the situation along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) and sought for a peaceful resolution of the dispute.
He further added that the US government was ‘concerned by Beijing’s pattern of ongoing attempts to intimidate its neighbours’. “As always, we’ll stand with friends, we’ll stand with partners, we’ll stand with allies,” he said.
Indian and Chinese troops have been locked in a bitter border standoff in eastern Ladakh since early May last year.
In the ninth round of military talks last month, India and China agreed to push for an early disengagement of troops and resolved to continue “effective efforts” to stabilise and control the situation in eastern Ladakh.
India and China have been locked in a military standoff over their disputed mountainous border and Indian public opinion has hardened against Beijing after soldiers were killed in a clash there.
Price spoke after a call earlier in the day between Secretary of State Antony Blinken and India’s Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar.
The State Department said the call’s purpose was “to reaffirm the strength of the US-India partnership” and issues of mutual concern, including Myanmar.
Myanmar’s military overthrew the newly elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi on Feb. 1 and detained her and other politicians from her National League for Democracy (NLD).
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