{"id":323533,"date":"2020-05-29T05:43:39","date_gmt":"2020-05-29T05:43:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=323533"},"modified":"2020-05-29T05:47:57","modified_gmt":"2020-05-29T05:47:57","slug":"spoke-in-april-govt-sources-say-no-recent-pm-modi-trump-contact-after-us-presidents-china-claim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/spoke-in-april-govt-sources-say-no-recent-pm-modi-trump-contact-after-us-presidents-china-claim\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Spoke in April&#8217;: Govt sources say no recent PM Modi, Trump contact after US President&#8217;s China claim"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-315073 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/modi-trump-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"676\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/09\/modi-trump-1.jpg 676w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/09\/modi-trump-1-300x178.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/>Hours after US President Donald Trump said that he spoke to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and \u201che is not in a good mood over the border conflict with China\u201d, \u00a0sources in the government rebutted the claim and asserted that there had been no recent contact between the two leaders.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">There has been no recent contact between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and US President Donald Trump, sources said on Friday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cThe last conversation between President Trump and PM Modi was on April 4, 2020 on the subject of hydroxychloroquine,\u201d sources added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">This came after President Trump said that he spoke to PM Modi over India&#8217;s ongoing border row with China.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Speaking to media persons in the Oval Office of the White House on Thursday, President Trump said that a \u201cbig conflict\u201d was going on between the two countries.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cThere is a big conflict going on between India and China. Two countries with 1.4 billion people [each]. Two countries with very powerful militaries. India is not happy and probably China is not happy,\u201d the US President said on the border situation between the two nations.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cI did speak to PM Modi. He is not in a good mood about what is going on with China,\u201d Trump said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Ministry of External Affairs had also made it clear that India is in direct touch with the Chinese side through established mechanisms and diplomatic contacts.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hours after US President Donald Trump said that he spoke to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and \u201che is not in a good mood over the border conflict with China\u201d, \u00a0sources in the government rebutted the claim and asserted that there had been no recent contact between the two leaders. There has been no recent contact [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":315073,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36,1],"tags":[64,316],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323533"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=323533"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":323535,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323533\/revisions\/323535"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/315073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}