By Anjali Sharma
NEW YORK – US media on Sunday has slammed the Donald Trump administration for “alienation of India”, stated that Chinese President Xi Jinping is using that as an opportunity to reshape a global order which has largely been dominated by the United States.
The experts believe that Chinese President Xi Jinping wants to use the SCO Summit as an opportunity to showcase how a new world order will look without America and Europe.
“Xi can also thank the Trump administration for accelerating an easing of tensions between China and India, its biggest Asian strategic competitor,” read an article in US media.
The NYT article suggested that the US alienation of India has drawn Modi closer to China and Russia.
Modi is in China to attend the Shanghai Cooperation Organization Summit. This is his first visit to the hostile neighbour since 2018 and the deadly border standoff in 2020.
He will meet Chinese President Xi Jinping as both countries look to mend bilateral ties amid US President Trump’s imposition of 50 per cent tariffs on India.
“New Delhi has been frustrated by the doubled of U.S. tariffs on Indian goods to a whopping 50 percent, leading to calls for a rebalancing toward China,” the article read.
It said that the convergence of Russian President Vladimir Putin and Modi in China, along with leaders from dozens of other emerging economies “contrasts with the growing discord within the U.S. alliance with European and Asian countries.”
The 2025 SCO Summit, the largest since it was founded in 2001, is being hailed by China as “an important force in building a new type of international relations.”
