New Delhi, Dec. 13 -- Congress MP Jairam Ramesh, reacting to India's exclusion from the US-led Pax Silica initiative, said the move is a result of the deteriorating relationship between US President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Narendra Modi since May 10, and added that India would have benefited had it been part of the initiative.

In a post on X, Ramesh said, "According to some news reports, the US has excluded India from a nine-nation initiative it has launched to reduce Chinese control on high tech supply chains. The agreement is called Pax Silica clearly as a counter to Pax Sinica. The nations included (for the moment at least) are the US, Japan, Republic of Korea, Singapore, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Israel, United Ara...