US National Security Advisor John Bolton said that the tariff imposed on India by President Donald Trump on India, as a result of the “worst result” for Washington, carried forward New Delhi and reduced the decades of American efforts to pull it out of Russia and China.
He said that the move has left behind relations with India, sparing China, and weakening a major American target. Bolton pointed to New Delhi to a heavy tariff to buy Russian oil and accused Trump of taking a favor to India, probably called it a “huge mistake”.
Trump was engaged in a brief trade war with China in April, but had since been avoided, pending a deal, while killing India with more than 50 percent with tariffs, which claimed that he claimed that there was a financing of Russian war in Ukraine.
Talking to CNN, Bolton said that the irony was that Russian, Russia intended to hurt, instead could bring India close to Russia and China, and may lead them to interact together against the US.
He said, “Trump’s generosity over Chinese and heavy tariffs over India endangers the American efforts of decades to bring India away from Russia and China,” he said.
In an up-ed for the hill, Bolton said that Trump’s soft trem towards Beijing can be seen as a renunciation of American strategic interests in his “a deal” with President Xi Jinping.
He said, “The White House has moved towards more generous treatment for Beijing on tariff rates and other matrix on New Delhi. If so, it would be a possible huge mistake,” he wrote.
Trump’s additional tariff has so far failed to convince India to stop buying Russian oil. Instead, India has defended its imports as “inappropriate and inappropriate”.
Moscow has supported New Delhi and accused Washington of putting an illegal trade pressure, Trump a week before he was ready to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin.
The meeting, Bolton said, “will give Putin a chance to pursue his agenda and possibly use India tariffs as part of a large strategy.
