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.
Mini deal will likely see no cut in 10% baseline tariff on Indian exports announced by Trump on 2 April, it is learnt, but additional 26% tariffs are set to be reduced.
The Chinese are said to have hired ex-fighter pilots & air force operators from NATO countries over the past several years to help them fine-tune their operational & flying capabilities.
Public, loud, upfront, filled with impropriety and high praise sometimes laced with insults. This is what we call Trumplomacy. But the larger objective is the same: American supremacy.
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