India views US NSA Sullivan and China's Yi talks as an exercise in futility

India has considered the recent talks between the US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi as an exercise in futility, with Beijing showing no sign of reducing military pressure on Taiwan. Moreover, China is also reluctant to pressure Iran into stopping Houthi attacks on commercial shipping in the Red Sea in what is yet another signal that the interaction between top officials from Washington and Beijing in Bangkok failed to achieve the real objective.

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"The White House Readout may have termed the talks as candid, substantive and constructive discussions on global and regional issues, but the reality is that the two sides could not address the issues of the Red Sea crisis and China's military pressure on Taiwan the way they should have been dealt with," the diplomats who were closely following the development told The Daily Guardian here in New Delhi.

"The White House readout does not mention how China is going to address the US concerns on these two major issues which were on top of the agenda on the table between Sullivan and Wang Yi," added the diplomats.