The US has not been sitting on the sidelines as Indian and Chinese troops remain locked in a tense standoff in eastern Ladakh. On June 22, a week after the Galwan clashes, US secretary of state Michael Pompeo called foreign minister S Jaishankar for a conversation on the current state of play at the LAC.
There has been high-level exchange of information between the two countries. India and the US are treading carefully, both sides aware that any overt show of support could set off the Chinese. High-level sources told TOI that Jaishankar had, in addition to Pompeo, spoken to his counterparts from France, Germany, Japan,
No overt show but India & US in touch at top level
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