"The China-India border issue is a matter for China and India, it has nothing to do with the U.S.," Lin said. "Everyone knows that the U.S. has always used indiscriminate means to provoke and use other countries' disputes to serve its own selfish geopolitical interests." Earlier this week, India's foreign ministry said the northeastern state which shares a border with China will always be an "integral and inalienable part of India".