Both US and Canada are seeking to build better ties with India to counter Chinese influence<\/p>\n
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said he senses a change in India’s tone with Ottawa after the United States warned New Delhi about its involvement in a\u00a0thwarted plot\u00a0to kill a Sikh separatist leader on US soil, the CBC reported on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
“I think there is a beginning of an understanding that they can’t bluster their way through this and there is an openness to collaborating in a way that perhaps they were less open before,” Trudeau said in an interview with the Canadian Broadcasting Corp.<\/p>\n
“There’s an understanding that maybe, maybe just churning out attacks against Canada isn’t going to make this problem go away,” he added.<\/p>\n
Trudeau\u00a0announced September\u00a018\u00a0that Canadian intelligence agencies were pursuing credible allegations linking Indian government agents to the murder of a Sikh separatist leader, 45-year-old Hardeep Singh Nijjar, in British Columbia in June, upending diplomatic ties between the two nations.<\/p>\n
The US Justice Department in November\u00a0charged a man\u00a0accused of orchestrating an unsuccessful plot to assassinate a Sikh separatist – a US citizen of Indian origin living in New York City, alleging that an Indian government official directed the plan. US\u00a0officials did not name the targeted person.<\/p>\n
After the US\u00a0revelations, Canadian officials pressed India to cooperate in its investigation of the June murder, which\u00a0drew renewed attention\u00a0to the movement for a Sikh homeland in northern India.<\/p>\n