The two leaders met on the sidelines of G7 foreign ministers' meeting in the UK and held talks on Covid challenges and ways to deepen the US-India global strategic partnership.
Blinken spoke with Jaishankar to reaffirm the importance of the US-India relationship and cooperation on regional security issues, State Department spokesperson said.
The US Secretary of State in an interview Sunday expressed concern about the 'methodology and the process' followed by the forthcoming WHO report on the origin of the coronavirus.
Alaska meeting attended by US Secretary of State Blinken and top Chinese diplomat Yang Jiechi among others quickly turned rocky as both sides traded barbs, raised sensitive issues.
The relations between the US and China are at an all-time low, with both countries engaged in confrontation over trade, Covid's origins, the South China Sea, and many other issues.
In a letter to Blinken, senators Bob Menendez and Chuck Schumer said peaceful dialogue and respect for viewpoints of all peaceful actors should drive the path forward on farm laws.
At the Alaska meeting, US raised concerns about cyber attacks, Uyghur Muslims & Hong Kong while China countered by citing the Black Lives Matter movement.
Jake Sullivan and US Secretary of State Antony Blinken are scheduled to meet their Chinese counterparts next week, the first in-person meeting since Joe Biden became president.
The US will speak out forcefully against China's 'genocide' against Uyghur Muslims in Xinjiang province, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in a Congressional hearing Wednesday.
The last time this matter flared up was when Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta, in a very similar directive in April, called for the relocation of stray dogs in the capital.
Finance ministry says the proposed revamp will focus on structural reforms, rate rationalisation & ease of living, & will be deliberated upon in the coming weeks.
The project is meant to be a ‘protective shield that will keep expanding’, the PM said. It is on the lines of the ‘Golden Dome’ announced by Trump, it is learnt.
Now that both IAF and PAF have made formal claims of having shot down the other’s aircraft in the 87-hour war in May, we can ask a larger question: do such numbers really matter?
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