India-China standoff: Want to ensure tensions don’t escalate between two countries, says US


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US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and the US Secretary of Defence Mark Esper will visit New Delhi next week to discuss regional security cooperation, defence trade and defence information sharing. The top officials will also meet NSA Ajit Doval and PM Modi. US Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary Dean Thompson said, US administration is monitoring the situation in the Himalayan region closely and understandably and it certainly wants to ensure that the situation does not escalate. The US is providing support, whether through defence sales, exercises as well as information sharing. These are all areas where the US cooperates with...