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TOI Correspondent from Washington: US President Donald Trump is insisting Prime Minister Narendra Modi called him to extremity the warfare against Pakistan aft helium (Trump) threatened a 350 percent tariff against some countries.
The assertion comes connected the heels of a legislature study crediting Pakistan's battlefield “success” to Chinese weaponry and accusing Beijing of exploiting the chaos for geopolitical gain, adjacent arsenic Trump is hawking US arms crossed the world, Saudi Arabia being the latest recipient.
Trump’s communicative connected settling the India-Pak war, which gets much elaborate with each telling (more than 60 times truthful far), included Modi calling him to accidental “We’re done” with the war, which successful the US President’s presumption would person gone atomic and resulted successful atomic particulate implicit Los Angeles.
New Delhi has repeatedly denied determination was immoderate telephone betwixt the 2 leaders during oregon instantly aft the abbreviated four-day clash. Trump’s assertions, which get much embellishments with each recall, came hours aft a two-page investigation successful the 2025 Annual Report to Congress by the US-China Economic and Security Review Commission (USCC) – a bipartisan sheet mandated to scrutinize Sino-American information dynamics – framed Pakistan's "military success" arsenic a showcase for Beijing's arsenal, which constitutes 82% of Islamabad's arms imports from 2019–2023.
"Pakistan’s subject occurrence implicit India successful its four-day clash showcased Chinese weaponry," the papers asserts, citing the combat debut of HQ-9 surface-to-air missiles and Wing Loong II drones that reportedly intercepted Indian incursions. “While characterization of this struggle arsenic a “proxy war” whitethorn overstate China’s relation arsenic an instigator, Beijing opportunistically leveraged the struggle to trial and advertise the sophistication of its weapons, utile successful the contexts of its ongoing borderline tensions with India and its expanding defence manufacture goals,” the study said.
It besides spotlights pre-conflict Sino-Pakistani drills: the Warrior-VIII onshore exercises successful October 2024 and the AMAN-2025 naval maneuvers successful February, which honed interoperability successful contested airspace. The disquisition connected Chinese arms comes adjacent arsenic Trump, a self-professed peacemaker, boasts often astir the primacy and sophistication of U.S subject hardware, hawking it to allies successful Europe, the Gulf, and East Asia.
Earlier this week, the Trump medication notified Congress its support for the merchantability of Javelin anti-tank strategy and Excalibur projectiles to India successful a $93 cardinal declaration -- chump alteration compared to the billions successful income it is lining up for Saudi Arabia.
The U.S is besides trying to wean Pakistan distant from Chinese subject dependence. The USSC study meantime alleged that station India-Pak ceasefire, Beijing orchestrated a blase disinformation blitz to undermine occidental arms.
Using AI-generated deepfakes and morphed imagery, Chinese state-linked actors flooded societal media with fabricated footage of Rafale jets malfunctioning, aiming to erode French arms income successful South Asia, it said. This ploy reportedly swayed Indonesia to suspend a $8.1 cardinal Rafale woody successful June 2025, redirecting involvement toward China's J-35 stealth fighter.
"The struggle drew planetary attraction to the China-Pakistan defence nexus," the study warns, underscoring escalation risks successful a atomic flashpoint wherever miscalculation could cascade regionally.The study besides looks astatine the “asymmetry” successful the degrees to which China and India prioritize establishing a semipermanent solution to their borderline dispute. In caller years, it says, the Indian authorities has progressively recognized the seriousness of the menace posed by China astatine the border—and that it is not simply “acne connected the face,” particularly arsenic China’s subject has strengthened.“It remains to beryllium seen whether China’s and India’s 2025 commitments are a short-term relation of India’s tendency to hedge against tumult successful commercialized negotiations with the United States oregon are a semipermanent displacement toward normalization successful bilateral relations,” the study says, reflecting connected the Modi-Xi gathering successful Tianjin.
