No. of Recommendations: 22
Below are the two opening paragraphs from an article in The Economist about this subject. Unfortunately, their gift article feature is not robust enough to use on chat boards.
Not only are Trump’s actions pushing India into China’s sphere (amazing, since China and India were involved in border skirmishes with each other in 2020), you can add Brazil into the mix due to Trump’s inability to think about the repercussions of his knee-jerk actions (adding punishing tariffs to a country that the U.S. has a long standing trade surplus with - $410 billion over the last 15 years).
In addition, these actions strengthen the BRICS movement, something that is extremely detrimental the U.S. interests.
But this is what happens when you surround yourself with obsequious toadies (who were approved by nearly 100% of Republicans in the Senate) instead of experts who actually know what they’re doing.
Trump and his MAGA supporters, the party of personal responsibility, always try to blame others for their own blunders. But clearly, Trump owns this lock, stock, and barrel.
Fasten your seatbelts, the shit show is just beginning.
IT IS UNUSUAL to experience humiliation, vindication and a defining test all at the same time. But that is India’s predicament today. President Donald Trump has undone 25 years of diplomacy by embracing Pakistan after its conflict with India in May, and now singling out India for even higher tariffs than China. He cannot have thought through how the world’s most populous country and fifth-largest economy would react.
Narendra Modi, India’s prime minister, recently laid out a path for a muscular, more self-reliant nation. He is also about to meet Xi Jinping in China, after a bitter four-year Sino-Indian military stand-off in the Himalayas. For America to alienate India is a grave mistake. For India it is a moment of opportunity: a defining test of its claim to be a superpower-in-waiting.
