Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Chinese President Xi Jinping, and Russian President Vladimir Putin at the venue of the Shanghai Cooperation Council (SCO) Summit in Tianjin.
| Photo Credit: ANI
U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday (September 5, 2025) said India and Russia appear to have been “lost” to China, following the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) meeting in Tianjin, China.
“Looks like we’ve lost India and Russia to deepest, darkest China. May they have a long and prosperous future together!” Mr. Trump wrote in social media platform TruthSocial, along with an old photograph of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Russian President Vladimir Putin, and Chinese President Xi Jinping seen together.
On India, Russia and China ties, Mr. Trump said, “May they have long and prosperous future together.”
On Thursday (September 4, 2025), Mr. Trump wrote a post accusing his Chinese counterpart of “conspiring” against the USA along with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and Russia’s Vladimir Putin, who were the chief guests of China’s event to commemorate 80 years since the end of World War II. “China’s development of diplomatic relations with any country is never directed against any third party,” said the nation’s spokesperson.
Recently, Mr. Trump’s top trade adviser, Peter Navarro, called the bonhomie between the three leader as “troublesome” and added Mr. Modi needs to be with Washington, Europe and Ukraine, not with Russia.
While the Ministry of External Affairs declined to comment on Mr. Trump’s TruthSocial post, the Ministry’s spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal said, “We have seen the inaccurate and misleading statements made by Mr. Navarro, and obviously reject them.“
The Trump administration has imposed 25% reciprocal tariffs on India and an additional 25% levies for Delhi’s purchases of Russian oil, bringing the total duties imposed on India to 50%, among the highest in the world.
India has called the tariffs imposed by the U.S. “unjustified and unreasonable”.
Published – September 05, 2025 04:22 pm IST
