WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States is happy to help resolve the dispute between India and China over the mountain border running through the western Himalayas, U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday.

Trump told reporters the situation was “very, very nasty,” adding that the two countries were “going at it much more strongly than a lot of people even understand.”

Both sides deployed additional forces along the frontier after a clash in June, during which 20 Indian soldiers were killed in hand-to-hand fighting.

(Reporting by Jeff Mason, writing by Andrea Shalal; Editing by Sandra Maler)

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