President Donald Trump's trade adviser Peter Navarro has slammed India for what he dubbed as an "opportunistic" purchase of crude oil from Russia and said New Delhi needs to act like a strategic partner of the US.
In a column for ‘The Financial Times’ on Monday, the White House counsellor for trade and manufacturing accused India of acting as a global clearinghouse for Russian oil by converting embargoed crude into high-value exports.
"India's dependence on Russian crude is opportunistic and deeply corrosive of the world's efforts to isolate Putin's war economy,” writes Navarro.
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