https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2025\/08\/26\/clearly-a-low-moment-u-s-india-relationship-sours-as-new-tariffs-kick-in-00527196<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"“The new levies \u2014 imposed, in part, to pressure Russia to end its war on Ukraine by punishing one of its largest oil buyers \u2014 will raise the country\u2019s tariff rate to 50 percent and are likely to inflame tensions between the world\u2019s two largest democracies.<\/p>\n
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The Indians, meanwhile, have shown little sign of budging on their Russian oil purchases, which the government has framed as purely an economic decision.<\/p>\n
Now, India\u2019s 50 percent tariff rate will be nearly as high as the 55 percent levy Chinese goods face.<\/p>\n
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For much of this century, U.S. presidents have sought to pull New Delhi into closer strategic ties \u2014 and pry it away from its traditional relations with Moscow \u2014 through India\u2019s membership in the China-countering group known as the Quad, which also includes Australia, Japan and the United States.<\/p>\n
Those efforts appeared to be bearing fruit as recently as January following a meeting in Washington with top diplomats from Quad countries when India\u2019s Foreign Affairs Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar told reporters that New Delhi was willing to nudge the grouping toward a greater defense and security focus. That initiative is likely dead as long as the Trump administration\u2019s tariff punishment continues.”<\/p>\n
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