Former US National Security Advisor John Bolton on Thursday (local time) again killed US President Donald Trump for pushing Prime Minister Narendra Modi closer to Russia and China in the background of 50 % of tariffs stored in India. President Trump has been pulling India-us binding for decades, Bolton said.
“The White House has set the relations between India back for decades and pushed Modi closer to Russia and China. Beijing threw himself as an alternative to the US and Donald Trump,” Bolton said in post X, sharing his recent conversation with LBC.
Bolton’s comments came in the middle of tense ties between the new Delhi and Washington over the newly stored Trump Administration tariffs on Indian products.
“Shredded” decade of western efforts: Bolton
The former NSA killed Trump’s tariff policy and claimed that the “crushed” decade of western efforts to harmonize India from its Cold War ties with the then Soviet Union (Russia) and solves the growing threat from China.
In a number of contributions to X, Bolton accused Trump of threat to strategic profits with his economic approach, and at the same time indicated that this policy gave the Chinese President Xi Jinping the opportunity to transform the geopolitical landscape in the east.
“The West has spent decades to shut down India from its attachment to the Cold War to the Soviet Union/ Russia and warned India about the threat that China represents. Donald Trump crushed decades of efforts with its disastrous tariff policy,” Bolton said in one of the posts.
India had a strong relationship with the US on the basis of years of diplomatic and economic cooperation. In 2024, India and the US carried out trade in goods and services worth $ 186 billion, with a surplus of $ 41 billion in favor of India.
Trump has repeatedly described India as a “good friend”, but his recent statements and subsequent tariffs seem to have affected this relationship. The links were influenced after the US was deposited with new customs measures for Indian products that came into force on 27 August, increasing the total customs burden on Indian goods to almost 50 percent.
“Unwillingness to consider diplomatic movements”
Bolton said in one of the posts that Donald Trump’s unwillingness to consider diplomatic movements in a larger strategic context provided Xi Jinping the opportunity to reset the East.
Bolton is a former American government official who worked as a counselor for National Security (2018-19) Donald Trump in his first stint as the US President. Later he resigned from his position on differences with Trump at that time at that time foreign policy of the administration.
Bolton’s comments come after the organization for cooperation in Shanghai (Scco Summit in Tianjin, China. Prime Minister Modi organized bilateral engagement with Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping on the edge of the summit.
PM Modi and Xi JinPing have recognized the role of India and Chinese economies in the stabilization of global trade during Sunday’s bilateral meeting on Sunday, according to the Ministry of External Affairs.
PM Narendra Modi, while meeting Putin, emphasized the strong relationship between India and Russia, and said that both nations have always stood the shoulders on the shoulder, even in the most demanding situations.
The White House has set relations between the US and India back for decades and pushed modi closer to Russia and China.
The Prime Minister confirmed that the cooperation between the new Delhi and Moscow is essential for global peace, stability and prosperity.
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