Why India Dropped the U.S for China
BRICS, 1 Sep 2025
Cyrus Janssen - TRANSCEND Media Service
Trump Just Handed Beijing a Win You Won’t Believe!
30 Aug 2025 – While Western media has been completely preoccupied watching Putin, Trump and European leaders decide the future of Ukraine, a massive story has been unfolding on the other side of the world as India is now officially moving away from the United States and forging a closer relationship with both Russia and China.
India is the world’s fastest-growing economy, it’s a country you would like to have as an ally, but instead of fostering this relationship Donald Trump has thrown India straight under the bus hitting the country with some of the highest tariffs of any nation in the world. Donald Trump is used to bullying countries around, just a couple weeks ago he strong armed the entire European Union into a trade deal that unquestionably gave all the power and leverage to the United States. But Trump’s decision to sever America’s relationship with India is one he will regret very soon. Trump’s tense phone call with Modi helped unravel decades of US policy. But how big an error will this be for the US? Just listen to this prediction from Ashley Tellis, senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace:
“Trump’s India strategy is really incomprehensible. This may turn out to be another one of those very costly whims of the president that the country will ultimately end up paying for.”
As he’s done so many times in his second term, Donald Trump is overplaying his hand and in the process, the United States has thrown away one of its most critical allies, pushing India straight back into the arms of its BRICS partners China and Russia. Honestly, the deterioration of US India relations is one of the most fascinating storylines to emerge so far in 2025. India’s Prime Minister Modi was actually one of the first foreign leaders to visit the White House shortly after Trump took office for the second time. Many geopolitical experts actually predicted Trump would move closer to India and use the country as leverage against both Russia and India. Don’t forget Trump wanted Apple to shift iPhone production from China to India and was all about embracing India as America’s best friend just a few months ago. But as Trump proved with the recent shake down deal of the European Union, there are no true allies under the Trump administration and India is no exception.
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Cyrus Janssen is a US entrepreneur who writes about China, investing, and the future of our world.
Tags: BRICS, China, India, Narendra Modi, Putin, Trump, USA, Xi Jinping
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