Trade ties between the rival powers remain fraught, even as Bessent held “frank” talks over video with Chinese Vice-Premier He Lifeng on Saturday, with the pair set to hold fresh in-person negotiations this week. Yet, amid the tensions, Trump appears to have shown some restraint by not antagonising his counterpart, Xi Jinping, or challenging Beijing’s…
File picture of White House trade advisor Peter Navarro | Photo Credit: Reuters In a fresh outburst, White House trade advisor Peter Navarro on Monday (September 8, 2025) said India “must come around” at some point on trade negotiations with the U.S. or else it “won’t end well” for Delhi. Mr. Navarro, in an interview…
White House trade advisor Peter Navarro on Tuesday launched a new verbal attack on BRICS as he asserted none of members ‘would survive without selling to the United States’. In a TV interaction, Peter Navarro also doubted if the alliance between bloc of countries would stay for long. He alleged that all countries part of…
Another day, another attack on India by White House trade advisor Peter Navarro, this time with a reference to “vampires”. After days of lashing out at India’s oil trade with Russia, Navarro has now targeted the countries in the BRICS bloc, that India is also a part of. Peter Navarro, White House senior counselor for…
Peter Navarro, a prominent American economist and Senior Counselor for Trade and Manufacturing to US President Donald Trump, has ignited widespread outrage in India with a series of incendiary remarks. Navarro branded India a “laundromat for the Kremlin,” accusing the nation of profiteering from the Russia-Ukraine war by purchasing discounted Russian oil and reselling…
A fact-check on Elon Musk’s X has triggered a public clash between senior Trump adviser Peter Navarro and the platform’s Community Notes feature, after Navarro accused India of profiteering from Russian oil.The dispute, which saw Navarro dismiss the fact-check as “crap” and accuse Musk of spreading propaganda, has snowballed into a debate about US trade…
Days after the bonhomie between Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin at the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit in Tianjin, President Donald Trump said on Friday it looks like the US has lost India and Russia to “darkest” China. “Looks like we have lost India and Russia to…
Taking a U-turn from his earlier stance, U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday spoke on his post in which he claimed the U.S. was “losing India and Russia to China,” stating that he “does not think that has happened.” Responding to ANI while addressing the media at the White House, Trump also expressed disappointment with…
White House trade adviser Peter Navarro on Wednesday accused India of “getting in bed with authoritarians”, warning that New Delhi was aligning itself with China and Russia even as trade tensions with Washington reached boiling point. His remarks came just hours after Washington’s crippling 50 per cent tariffs on Indian goods came into effect, a…
President Trump on Monday said a 15% tariff on imports from South Korea will hold despite President Lee Jae Myung’s visit to Washington, D.C. “We stuck to our guns,” the president said after the meeting. The two countries struck a trade deal in July, allowing South Korea to avoid a stiffer 25% tariff, but tensions…