Chinese Envoy’s ‘Bully’ Jibe At Trump After 50% Tariff Move On India: ‘Weapon To Suppress Other Countries’

<p data-pm-slice=”0 0 []”>A day after the United States put an extra 25 percent tariff on India, Chinese Ambassador to India Xu Feihong took a jab at&nbsp;Donald Trump. In a post on X, the Chinese envoy to India wrote, “Give the bully an inch, he will take a mile&rdquo;.</p>
<p>The Chinese envoy also added a post quoting an excerpt from the talks between the Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi and Celso Amorim, the Chief Advisor to Brazilian President Lula.</p>
<p>The post said, “Using tariffs as a weapon to suppress other countries violates the UN Charter, undermines WTO rules and is both unpopular and unsustainable.”</p>
<p>The recent comment by the Chinese envoy comes amid Trump’s threats on China owing to their oil purchase from Russia.</p>
<p>”It may happen, I don’t know, I can’t tell you yet, we did it with India and we are doing it probably with a couple of others, one of them could be China,” Trump said during a news conference in the White House.</p>
<p>The three biggest importers of Russian oil are India, China and Turkey. Trump has threatened to impose “secondary tariffs”&nbsp;if the war between Russia and Ukraine does not end by Friday.&nbsp;</p>
<h2>Brazilian President Dials PM Modi</h2>
<p>On Thursday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi received a telephone call from Brazilian President Luiz In&aacute;cio Lula da Silva, and the two leaders agreed to enhance cooperation in trade, technology, energy, defence, agriculture, health, and people-to-people ties, the PMO said. The call is important, as the conversation between the two leaders comes a day after US President Donald Trump issued an executive order slapping a 25 per cent additional tariff on Indian goods.</p>
<p>PM Modi and the Brazilian president also exchanged views on regional and global issues of mutual interest, the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) said in a statement. During the telephonic conversation, the prime minister recalled his visit to Brazil last month, it said.</p>
<p>(With PTI inputs.)</p>