CNN’s global affairs analyst Kimberly Dozier called out the “hypocritical” Donald Trump tariffs against India in the latest blow to the US leader during a breaking broadcast on the channel. Dozier began: “India and China have been at odds for years over a border dispute and a clash several years ago, which was deadly and killed several Indian forces.
“But, the more Washington beats up on Delhi, the Modi [India’s Prime Minister] has reached out to China and has also been embraced by China’s Xi. The latest tariffs imposed on India are an extra 25 per cent, totalling 50 per cent. And that extra 25 per cent is a complaint by the US that India is buying crude oil from Russia.”
She continued: “Now this is hypocritical in a number of ways. The US isn’t levying similar tariffs against China, which buys even more oil from Russia.
“And a large portion of the oil that India imports from Russia, it refines and then sells to the European Union, which is supporting Ukraine.”
“So why not beat up the European Union economically for purchasing this Russian oil?”
The tariffs sent India’s Narendra Modi to China, where Xi Jinping hosted leaders for the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit in Tianjin. This was Modi’s first visit to the country in seven years.
However, the CNN comments come as Trump boasted about how much money the US Treasury is making from the tariffs he’s added to imports for almost every country on the planet.
“We have trillions of dollars coming into our country,” Trump stated today. “If we didn’t have tariffs, we would be a very poor nation and we would be taken advantage of by every other nation in the world, friend and foe.”