The US has said that it does not endorse Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s contention that Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s foreign policy strengthened the Pakistan-China relationship.
State Department spokesperson Ned Price said when asked for a reaction to Rahul’s comments in Parliament on Wednesday said that it was for the countries in question to speak for themselves.
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Price also said that there was no requirement as far as the U.S. was concerned for other countries to choose between America and China and that the U.S. valued its relationship with Pakistan.
He said Pakistan is a strategic partner of the United States and his country has an important relationship with the government in Islamabad, and it’s a relationship that Washington values across a number of fronts.