US adviser Navarro says India’s Russian crude buying has to stop

White Home commerce adviser Peter Navarro 
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White Home commerce adviser Peter Navarro mentioned India’s purchases of Russian crude have been funding Moscow’s warfare in Ukraine and needed to cease, including that New Delhi was “now cozying as much as each Russia and China.”

“If India desires to be handled as a strategic companion of the US, it wants to start out appearing like one,” Navarro wrote in an opinion piece printed within the Monetary Occasions.

India’s International Ministry has beforehand mentioned the nation is being unfairly singled out for getting Russian oil whereas the USA and European Union proceed to buy items from Russia. US President Donald Trump an extra 25 per cent tariff on Indian items earlier this month, citing New Delhi’s continued purchases of Russian oil, taking whole tariffs on imports from India to 50 per cent.

“India acts as a world clearinghouse for Russian oil, changing embargoed crude into high-value exports whereas giving Moscow the {dollars} it wants,” Navarro mentioned.

The adviser additionally mentioned it was dangerous to switch cutting-edge US navy capabilities to India as New Delhi was “now cozying as much as each Russia and China.”

Longtime rivals China and India are quietly and cautiously strengthening ties towards the backdrop of Trump’s unpredictable method to each. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is about to satisfy

Chinese language President Xi Jinping on the finish of the month whereas Chinese language International Minister Wang Yi will go to India from Monday for talks on the disputed border between the 2 international locations.

A deliberate go to by US commerce negotiators to New Delhi from August 25-29 has been referred to as off, a supply mentioned over the weekend, delaying talks on a proposed commerce settlement and dashing hopes of reduction from extra US tariffs on Indian items from August 27.

Revealed on August 18, 2025