With the Sino-U.S. deal done now, the US to lower to 30% for 90 days and China to lower to 10% for 90 days!

Now, with such a G2 arrangement, it is crystal clear that, just as India misjudged the “China+1” trend in 2020, it repeated the same miscalculation, missing yet another development window!

In October 2024, a breakthrough summit between Chinese and Indian leaders finally eased longstanding border tensions, and by March 2025, both nations issued positive remarks about their bilateral ties—something unseen in years.

However, as Trump wielded his "reciprocal tariffs" stick in early April, the fragile thaw in Sino-Indian relations was clouded by uncertainty.

On April 7, India’s Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal accused China of undermining the global economic order through unfair trade practices.

Four days later, Goyal doubled down, claiming that allowing China into the WTO was the root cause of today’s global trade crisis, while praising Trump’s tariffs as necessary and beneficial to the world, presenting a golden opportunity for India’s economic ambitions.

These statements reveal India's haste to align with Trump’s agenda on tariffs.

This approach has once again cast a long shadow over Sino-Indian ties, freezing the economic collaboration that had recently begun to warm.