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The United States president’s lunch meeting, Donald Trump, with Pakistan’s military chief caused a private diplomatic protest from India in a warning to Washington about the risks with his bilateral ties, while New Delhi is recalibrating relations with China as a hedge, officials and analysts said.
The meeting and other tensions in the relationship between the United States and India, after decades of flourishing ties, have thrown a shadow in the commercial negotiations, they said, since the Trump administration weighs tariffs against one of its main partners in the Indo-Pacific.
India blames Pakistan for supporting what he calls cross -border terrorism and has told the United States that he is sending the wrong signs when courting the field marshal also, three senior officials of the Indian government to the conscious of the matter. Reuters.
He has created a painful place that will hinder relations in the future, they said.
Pakistan categorically denies the accusations of supporting the militants who attack the Indian objectives and that New Delhi has not provided evidence that it is involved.
The ties between the United States and India have been strengthened in the last two decades despite the small inconveniences, at least in part because both countries seek to counteract China.
The current problems are different, said Michael Kugelman, a senior member based in Washington in the group of experts of the Asia Pacific Foundation.
“The frequency and intensity with which the United States is getting involved with Pakistan, and apparently does not take into account Indian concerns, especially after the recent conflict of India with Pakistan, has contributed to a bit of bilateral discomfort.”
“The concern this time is that one of the triggers for broader tensions, than being Trump’s unpredictability, extends to the commercial kingdom with its tariff approach,” he said.
The Office of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of India did not respond to a request for comments. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has said previously that it had “taken note” of the Trump-Munir meeting.
An American official said they do not comment on private diplomatic communications and that the United States enjoys strong relations with India and Pakistan.
“These relationships are because of their own merits, and we do not compare our bilateral relations with each other,” said the United States official.
Lunch at the White House
The United States seems to have taken a different tactic in Pakistan after a brief conflict broke out between rivals with nuclear weapons in May when India launched attacks on what he called terrorist objectives through the border in response to a deadly attack against tourists from the majority Hindu community in Jammu and Kashmir (Iiojk) of most Indians.
After four days of aerial fights, missile and drone attacks, the two parties agreed to stop the fire.
Hindu-Mojority India and Islamic Pakistan have accelerated regularly and have fought with three large-scale wars since independence in 1947, two of them on the disputed Cashmir region.
A few weeks after the May fight, Trump organized Munir to have lunch at the White House, a great boost in the ties with the country, which had greatly languished under the first mandate of Trump and Joe Biden. It was the first time that a president of the United States received the head of the Pakistan army at the White House that was not accompanied by senior Pakistani civil officials.
“The tourists were killed in front of their families after determining their faith,” said Indian Foreign Minister, Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, in May, referring to the Kashmir’s attack.
Pakistan says that it is Modi who is driven by religious extremism, and that his brand of Hindu nationalism has trampled the rights of the great Muslim minority of India. Modi and the Indian government say they do not discriminate against minorities.
The Munir Marshal meeting at the White House joined the disgust of India for Trump’s repeated insistence that avoided nuclear war between the two nations threatening to stop trade negotiations with them. The comment attracted a strong response from Modi, who told Trump that the high fire was achieved through conversations between the commanders of the army of the two nations, and not the US mediation.
In the days after their June 18 meeting with Munir, the people of the Modi office and the Office of the National Security Advisor of India made separate calls to their US counterparts to register a protest, two of the officials said. The protest has not been previously reported.
“We have communicated to the United States our position on cross -border terrorism, which is a red line for us,” said a senior Indian official. “These are difficult times … Trump’s inability to understand our concerns creates some wrinkles in the ties,” he added, looking for anonymity due to the sensitivity of the matter.
Trump and Munir discussed the continuation of a collaboration against terrorism, under which the United States has previously provided weapons to Pakistan, an ally of NATO, and talked about ways of strengthening ties even more, said a Pakistani reading of the meeting.
That raised the concern in New Delhi that any weapons that Pakistan receives from the United States could become India if the neighbors end up in conflict again, two of the officials said.
Tougher posture
Despite what was used to be public samples of Bonhomie between Trump and Modi, India has been adopting a slightly harder position against the United States in recent weeks, while commercial discussions have also slowed, Indian officials and an Indian lobbyist of the industry said.
Modi rejected 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 in the World Trade Organization, showing that commercial conversations were not going as well as they were before the clashes of India-Pakistan.
India, like other nations, is trying to find a way to deal with Trump and is recalibrating ties with China as coverage, said Harsh Pant, head of foreign policy in the group of experts of the India Observer Research Foundation.
“There is certainly a range for China,” he said. “And I think it’s mutual … China is also coming.”
Last week, Jaishankar from India made his first visit to Beijing from a deadly 2020 border clash between Indian and Chinese troops.
India is also making movements to relieve restrictions in China’s investments that were imposed after the 2020 shock.
The thaw occurs despite the thorny relations of India with China and Beijing’s close ties.
But New Delhi’s concern for Trump’s commitment to China, which has varied from conciliatory to confrontation, seems to have contributed to his position in Beijing.
“With an unpredictable merchant in the White House, New Delhi cannot rule out the Chinese-American approach,” said Christopher Clary, associate professor of Political Science at the University of Albany, New York.
“India is concerned about Chinese aid for Pakistan and the growing Chinese influence on other parts of the foreigner of India, such as Bangladesh. However, New Delhi has concluded to a large extent that she should respond to the Chinese influence dragged by focusing her pressures on her closest neighbors and not in China.”
