India, June 5 -- Congress MP Shashi Tharoor delivered a subtle yet witty response to a US reporter who asked whether India's recent military action against Pakistan was meant to send a message to China.

Shashi Tharoor was in an interaction with journalists, at the National Press Club in Washington DC, when he said, "I do believe that what happened on the night of the 9th and 10th speaks for itself, and even more so, the immediate reaction of Pakistan the next morning to call off the conflict also speaks very vividly for itself, and maybe that's the message the Chinese will have to look at."

"The fact that they (Pakistan) were using Chinese weapons and we were bypassing some of the Chinese radar defences, and the famous sort of Chinese n...