US President Donald Trump suggested on Friday that India is drifting towards China’s orbit, even as his assertive tariffs and public rebukes have tested ties with New Delhi.
Aides are warning that India could soon regret its stance and even face new curbs.
“Looks like we’ve lost India and Russia to deepest, darkest, China. May they have a long and prosperous future together,” the “America first” president wrote on social media.
His remarks were posted alongside a photo of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin at this week’s Shanghai Cooperation Organisation summit in Tianjin.
China’s embassy in Washington in a statement to the Post emphasised that that the country’s “development of relations with any other country aims at enhancing the common interests and well-being of the two peoples and is never targeted at any third party”.
“The world should be a stage for win-win cooperation, not a battlefield where one side wins and the other loses,” said embassy spokesman Liu Pengyu.
