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The US President Donald Trump’s lunch with Pakistan’s military leader caused a private diplomatic demonstration from India in a Washington warning for their bilateral links while New Delhi recalibers China relations as a coverage, officials and analysts said.
Reunion and other tensions in the American-Indian relationship, after decades of flourishing links, threw a shadow in the commercial negotiations, they said, because the administration of Trump weighs the prices against one of its main partners of the Indo-Pacific.
India blames Pakistan to have supported what it calls cross-border terrorism and told the United States that it sent the wrong signals by courting Marshal Asim Munnir, three senior Indian government officials directly aware of the affair told Reuters.
He has created a painful place that will hinder relations in the future, they said.
Pakistan categorically denies the accusations that it supports activists who attack Indian targets and that New Delhi has provided any evidence that it is involved.
The American links of India have strengthened in the past two decades despite minor hiccups, at least in part because the two countries seek to counter China.
The current problems are different, said Michael Kugelman, a principal researcher based in Washington to the Asia Pacific Foundation reflection group.
“The frequency and intensity with which the United States engages with Pakistan, and apparently not to take into account Indian concerns, in particular after the recent conflict of India with Pakistan, contributed to a little bilateral discomfort.”
“The concern this time is that one of the wider triggers of tension, that being the unpredictability of Trump, extends in the commercial field with his approach to prices,” he said.
The office of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the Indian Ministry of Foreign Affairs did not respond to a request for comments. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs previously declared that it had “noted” from Trump-Mnur’s meeting.
An American official said that they do not comment on private diplomatic communications and that the United States enjoy solid relations with India and Pakistan.
“These relationships are of their own merits, and we do not compare our bilateral relations with each other,” said the American official.
Lunch at the White House
The United States seems to have taken a different approach on Pakistan after a brief conflict broke out between nuclear weapons rivals in May, when India launched strikes on what it called terrorist targets through the border in response to a deadly attack on tourists from the majority Hindu community in the previous month.
After four days of air dog fighting, missiles and drone attacks, both parties agreed with a cease-fire.
India in the major Hindu and Islamic Pakistan have been erased regularly and have fought three large -scale wars since independence in 1947, including two in the disputed region of cashmere.
A few weeks after the fights in May, Trump welcomed the Blank House for lunch, a major boost in ties to the country, which had largely wired Trump’s first term and Joe Biden. It was the first time that an American president hosted the Pakistani army chief in the White House not accompanied by senior Pakistani civil officials.
“Tourists were murdered before their family after verifying their faith,” said Indian Minister for Foreign Affairs Subrahmanyam Jaishankar in May, referring to the attack on cashmere.
Pakistan says that it is Modi which is motivated by religious extremism and that its brand of Hindu nationalism has trampled on the rights of the Muslim Muslim minority. Modi and the Indian government say they do not discriminate against minorities.
The marshal’s meeting with the White House added to the Dam of India on the repeated insistence of Trump according to which he avoided the nuclear war between the two nations by threatening to arrest trade negotiations with them. The comment made a strong response from Modi, who told Trump that the ceasefire had been made by talks between army commanders of the two nations, not American mediation.
In the days following his meeting of June 18 with Munnir, people from the Modi office and the office of the national security advisor of India made separate calls to their American counterparts to record a demonstration, two of the officials said. The demonstration has not been reported before.
“We have communicated in the United States our position on cross-border terrorism, which is a red line for us,” said a senior Indian official. “These are difficult moments … Trump’s inability to understand our concerns creates links of links,” he added, seeking anonymity because of the sensitivity of the question.
Trump and Munnir discussed the continuation of a counterterrorism collaboration, under which the United States previously provided weapons in Pakistan, a non-nato ally, and spoke of means to further strengthen the ties, said a Pakistani reading of Reunion.
This has raised concern in New Delhi that any weapon that Pakistan receives from the United States could be lit in India if the neighbors are again in a conflict, two of the officials said.
More difficult position
Despite what was formerly public manifestations of Bonhomie between Trump and Modi, India has adopted a slightly more difficult position against the United States in recent weeks, while commercial discussions have also slowed down, Indian officials and an Indian industry said.
Modi refused a Trump invitation to visit Washington after the G7 meeting in Canada in June.
Earlier this month, New Delhi proposed reprisals against the United States to the World Trade Organization, showing that commercial negotiations were not as well as before the India-Pakistan clashes.
India, like other nations, is trying to find a way to deal with Trump and recalibrates links with China as a hedge, said Harsh Pant, head of foreign policy to the India reflection group observing Research Foundation.
“There is certainly awareness of China,” he said. “And I think it’s mutual … China also reaches out”.
Last week, Jaishankar of India made his first visit to Beijing since a deadly border clash of 2020 between the Indian and Chinese troops.
India also takes measures to facilitate restrictions on investments from China which were imposed following the 2020 confrontation.
The thaw occurs despite the thorny relations of India with China and the narrow links of Beijing.
But New Delhi’s concern about Trump’s own commitment with China, which went from conciliation to confrontation, seems to have contributed to its change of position on Beijing.
“With an unpredictable profession at the White House, New Delhi cannot exclude the rapprochement of Sino-Us,” said Christopher Clary, associate professor of political science at the University of Albany, New York.
“India is disturbed by Chinese aid in Pakistan and the growth of Chinese influence elsewhere in India near the foreigner, such as Bangladesh. However, New Delhi has largely concluded that it should respond to the rampant Chinese influence by focusing its pressure on its nearest neighbors and not on China.”
