India declines to comment on Trump’s latest remarks

New Delhi, Sep 5: India on Friday declined to respond to US President Donald Trump's remarks that New Delhi is inching closer to China even as it rejected as "inaccurate and misleading" White House Trade advisor Peter Navarro's attack on it for procurement of Russian crude oil.

"Looks like we have lost India and Russia to deepest, darkest China. May they have a long and prosperous future together!," the US president said on social media.

Trump's latest remarks came days after after the bonhomie among Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin at a summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) in the Chinese city of Tianjin drew global attention.