TOI Correspondent from Washington: US President Donald Trump is insisting Prime Minister Narendra Modi referred to as him to finish the warfare towards Pakistan after he (Trump) threatened a 350 p.c tariff towards each international locations. The declare comes on the heels of a congressional report crediting Pakistan’s battlefield “success” to Chinese language weaponry and accusing Beijing of exploiting the chaos for geopolitical acquire, at the same time as Trump is hawking US arms the world over, Saudi Arabia being the newest recipient. Trump’s narrative on settling the India-Pak warfare, which will get extra elaborate with every telling (greater than 60 instances to this point), included Modi calling him to say “We’re finished” with the warfare, which within the US President’s view would have gone nuclear and resulted in nuclear mud over Los Angeles. New Delhi has repeatedly denied there was any name between the 2 leaders throughout or instantly after the quick four-day conflict. Trump’s assertions, which get extra elaborations with every recall, got here hours after a two-page evaluation within the 2025 Annual Report back to Congress by the US-China Financial and Safety Assessment Fee (USCC) – a bipartisan panel mandated to scrutinize Sino-American safety dynamics – framed Pakistan’s “navy success” as a showcase for Beijing’s arsenal, which constitutes 82% of Islamabad’s arms imports from 2019–2023.“Pakistan’s navy success over India in its four-day conflict showcased Chinese language weaponry,” the doc asserts, citing the fight debut of HQ-9 surface-to-air missiles and Wing Loong II drones that reportedly intercepted Indian incursions. “Whereas characterization of this battle as a “proxy warfare” might overstate China’s function as an instigator, Beijing opportunistically leveraged the battle to check and promote the sophistication of its weapons, helpful within the contexts of its ongoing border tensions with India and its increasing protection trade targets,” the report mentioned. It additionally spotlights pre-conflict Sino-Pakistani drills: the Warrior-VIII land workout routines in October 2024 and the AMAN-2025 naval maneuvers in February, which honed interoperability in contested airspace. The disquisition on Chinese language arms comes at the same time as Trump, a self-professed peacemaker, boasts continuously concerning the primacy and class of U.S navy {hardware}, hawking it to allies in Europe, the Gulf, and East Asia. Earlier this week, the Trump administration notified Congress its approval for the sale of Javelin anti-tank system and Excalibur projectiles to India in a $93 million contract — chump change in comparison with the billions in gross sales it’s lining up for Saudi Arabia. The U.S can be attempting to wean Pakistan away from Chinese language navy dependence. The USSC report in the meantime alleged that put up India-Pak ceasefire, Beijing orchestrated a classy disinformation blitz to undermine western arms. Utilizing AI-generated deepfakes and morphed imagery, Chinese language state-linked actors flooded social media with fabricated footage of Rafale jets malfunctioning, aiming to erode French arms gross sales in South Asia, it mentioned. This ploy reportedly swayed Indonesia to droop a $8.1 billion Rafale deal in June 2025, redirecting curiosity towards China’s J-35 stealth fighter. “The battle drew international consideration to the China-Pakistan protection nexus,” the report warns, underscoring escalation dangers in a nuclear flashpoint the place miscalculation may cascade regionally.The report additionally seems on the “asymmetry” within the levels to which China and India prioritize establishing a long-term answer to their border dispute. In recent times, it says, the Indian authorities has more and more acknowledged the seriousness of the risk posed by China on the border—and that it’s not merely “zits on the face,” particularly as China’s navy has strengthened.“It stays to be seen whether or not China’s and India’s 2025 commitments are a short-term perform of India’s need to hedge towards tumult in commerce negotiations with the US or are a long-term shift towards normalization in bilateral relations,” the report says, reflecting on the Modi-Xi assembly in Tianjin.