Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s recent visit to Beijing for the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit has sparked intense geopolitical debate, with foreign policy experts suggesting that India’s growing proximity to China and Russia is “entirely of Washington’s making.” The visit, which included bilateral talks with Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin, is…
In a notable shift in tone, Scott Bessent, a key economic advisor to former US President Donald Trump, has expressed confidence that India and the United States will “get this resolved,” referring to the recent trade and investment tensions that have sparked diplomatic unease. His remarks come days after Trump criticized the current bilateral trade…
Amid escalating trade tensions between New Delhi and Washington, India’s Ambassador to the United States, Vinay Mohan Kwatra, has launched a diplomatic outreach campaign focused on energy cooperation and fair trade practices. Over the past two weeks, Kwatra has met with more than 16 US lawmakers across party lines, emphasizing India’s growing hydrocarbon imports from…
In a sharply-worded rebuttal to the Trump administration’s criticism of India’s energy trade with Russia, External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar said he was “very perplexed” by the logic behind the United States’ decision to impose a 25% tariff penalty on Indian goods over Russian oil purchases. Speaking in Moscow alongside Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov,…
