“We have informed both India and China that the United States is ready, willing and able to mediate or arbitrate their now raging border dispute,” he said.

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Trump’s mediation offer comes at a time when Chinese President Xi Jinping had on Tuesday ordered his military to scale up the battle preparedness, considering the worst-case scenarios and asked them to resolutely defend the country's sovereignty.

Trump is one of the first international leaders to acknowledge the continuing face-off between India and China in eastern Ladakh after a clash between soldiers from both sides on two occasions.

Indian and Chinese Army personnel clashed along the northern bank of the Pangong Lake in Ladakh on 5 May. Four days later, a face-off between the two sides was witnessed near Naku La Pass in Sikkim.

This is the first major stand-off between India and China after the Doklam episode in 2017 when Indian and Chinese forces saw a major face-off over construction of a road by China.