NEW DELHI : India on Friday said there was no contact between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and US President Donald Trump on tensions between India and its northern neighbor China even as the president repeated an offer to mediate or arbitrate between the two over a raging border dispute.
It came on a day China too rejected Trump's offer to mediate, saying the two countries did not need the intervention of a "third party" to settle their differences.
This came as the stalemate on the ground continued with both Indian and Chinese troops holding their positions onto their positions in Ladakh. “The last conversation between them (Modi and Trump) was on 4 April, 2020, on the subject of hydroxychloroquine," said a person familiar with the matter
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