New Delhi: India on Thursday said it was engaged with the China to resolve a tense border standoff ignoring an offer of mediation or arbitration made by US president Donald Trump a day earlier.
At the weekly foreign office briefing in New Delhi, when asked to comment on Trump’s mediation offer, ministry spokesman Anurag Srivastava did not refer to Trump's offer but merely said: “We are engaged with the Chinese side to peacefully resolve this issue." This an indication that India would sort out the issue directly with China. “We have informed both India and China that the United States is ready, willing and able to mediate or arbitrate their now raging border dispute.