US adviser Navarro says India’s Russian crude buying has to stop
(Reuters) -white House Trade Advisor Peter Navarro said India’s acquisition of Russian crude oil financing Moscow’s war in Ukraine and adding that the new Delhi was “now bored to Russia and China”.
“India wants to be treated as a strategic partner of the United States,” India needs to begin to act like someone, “Navarro said in a piece of ideas published in the Financial Times.
The Indian Ministry of Foreign Affairs said that the country has previously been unjustly chosen to buy Russian oil, and that the US and the European Union continued to buy goods from Russia. US President Donald Trump, at the beginning of this month, 25% more tariffs for Indian goods, New Delhi’s Russian oil purchases, increasing the total tariffs of imports from India to 50%.
“India serves as a global swap for Russian oil and transforms the embargo into high -valuable exports to Moscow.” He said.
The advisor also said that the new Delhi was risky to transfer his latest US military capabilities to India because he was now stuck in both Russia and China “.
For a long time competitors China and India have quietly and carefully strengthening ties. EmbersAn unpredictable approach to both. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping at the end of the month, while Chinese Foreign Minister Wang will visit India on Monday for the controversial border between the two countries.
A visit of US commercial negotiators to a new Delhi between August 25-29, delayed the negotiations on a proposed trade agreement during the weekend, and prevented the hopes of relief from additional tariffs on the US Indian goods from 27 August.
(Reporting by Shubham Kalia in Bengaluru; Editing by Christian Schmollinger)
