
Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Xi Jinping met in China on the sidelines of the SCO summit, but one man who will be watching closely is US President Donald Trump. This meeting comes at a time when Trump is increasingly trying to corner no, bully India into stopping oil imports from Russia using the tariff bomb. A 50% tariff has been slapped on India, the India-US trade deal has been put on pause, and the language from some within the Trump administration, like Pete Navarro, has turned increasingly intemperate.