Two things that came to my mind when India negotiated its tariff agreement with the USA. How is India going to be forced to import USA rice that will put its rice farmers out of business? The second question I had to ask was how is India going to do without Russian oil? Trump said that he is punishing India with a 25% tariff for buying Russian oil, thus supporting the Russian economy and its war funding.
Now India is not even buying USA's F35 fighter jets and reverting to buying Russian military equipment, a real slap on the face of Trump. India is not opening up the Indian agricultural sector as well by allowing USA rice into the country to kill off its farmers. Of course, Trump can never force India to buy its contaminated beef stuffed with growth hormones, that Hindus are forbidden to consume on religious grounds.
As I said earlier, India's future lies with BRICS and it is time for India to think rationally, instead of being used by the USA to stifle the growth of BRICS. If India sees and realizes that its future is tied to BRICS, that will be a great win for BRICS as well and Trump will be hopping mad and facing de-dollarization on an even faster trajectory.
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India's about turn regarding purchase of Boeing planes and opening up its agricultural sector punctures Trump gloating about his big, beautiful tariff agreement (unsigned by the way) and all his winnings. Everything bites the dust.
The bigger slap must be about India telling Trump it is not going to stop buying Russian oil, which constitutes about 35% of all India's needs. That is a massive sacrifice for discounted oil that India cannot do without. To add insult to injury, India is going to continue to buy Russian weapons as well that Trump had been trying to wean India away. Now, the picture is clearer regarding India's support for Russia's economy and war chest. There is no way that the USA can also force China not to buy Russian energy.
Now Trump is threatening China and India and those still buying Russian oil of a 100% secondary tariff if they do not stop buying Russian oil. The oil market will see oil prices hit the stratosphere if that move is successful, affecting even the USA itself.
Trump can threaten BRICS with a 1000% secondary tariff, but that will be academic if countries just sell less to the USA, just like what China is doing. There is a much bigger world to trade with for BRICS countries, and the USA is not the center of the world in global trade unlike in the past. That is now history, and Trump can threaten BRICS all he likes. He is actually punishing his own USA citizens, the ones who voted for him. If the USA citizens are as dense as we assume, that is just too bad. The world will just move on without the USA and having less problems to deal with a rogue state.
How to spin the story that China is forcing India to take sides. China and India do not even see eye to eye in BRICS and SCO.
If the USA, using its roguish behavior, cannot even force India to buy its F35, open up its agricultural sector, force India not to buy Russian oil and abide by its agreement in negotiations with Trump, with threats and more threats, how is China even seen as succeeding in coercing India to take sides?
The USA is now so hard up for forging reasonable propaganda against China, it has to resort to peddling fake news and lies. How can countries just continue to swallow USA lies when the truth does not reflect its credibility. In the mindset of Trump, getting rid of the truth by removing those who dared to expose his lies is the only recourse left for the rogue regime. Removing the labor chief who revealed the real statistics of USA employment tells us that the USA administration can only tolerate its own lies, nothing else. When the truth hurts and those who wanted to reveal the truth are removed, who dares to go against the de-facto dictator sitting in the White House?
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