India and China are aware of the “very high political, economic and military cost of frozen relations,” he says. “China felt it had pushed India too close to the U.S. while India realized that it was losing its vaunted strategic autonomy by getting too close to Washington and turning Beijing into an adversary.”

Trump’s targeting of India with hefty tariffs, coupled with his efforts to strengthen US ties with Pakistan, could cost him a powerful ally in the Asia-Pacific region, reports

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the Russian oil that China is buying is being refined by Beijing, and that refined oil is then sold into the global marketplace, including Europe., Europe, Times