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In a scathing attack on BRICS, White House trade advisor Peter Navarro compared the bloc to 'vampires', accusing them of indulging in "unfair trade practices" and claimed that the bloc cannot survive without access to the American market.
The US President Donald Trump's aide further expressed doubts about the longevity of BRICS, saying the member nations have historically been hostile to each other.
‘Vampires sucking our blood’
"The bottom line is that none of these countries (BRICS) can survive if they don't sell to the US ... And when they sell to the United States their exports, they're like vampires sucking our blood dry with their unfair trade practices," he said in an interaction with a foreign media news channel.
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Navarro added," don't see how the BRICS stays together since historically they all hate each other and kill each other."
India-China ties in focus
His remarks came after Brazil hosted the BRICS virtual summit on Monday. External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar, who represented India, emphasised that New Delhi’s message was for BRICS to work towards stabilising the global economy, address the impact of ongoing conflicts on the Global South, and proactively support reforming multilateralism.
Navarro, however, took a direct dig at India-China relations, claiming the countries have been "at war for decades." "India, of course, is at war with China for decades ... It was China that gave Pakistan a nuclear bomb. You got ships flying around the Indian Ocean now with Chinese flags. Modi, see how you kind of worked that out," he said.
‘Russia in bed with China’
The Trump aide went on to say that Russia is "in bed with China." He further alleged: "Beijing has its sights on the Russian port of Vladivostok and is already colonising Siberia, which is the biggest land mass of the Russian semi-empire through massive illegal immigration ... So good luck with that, Putin," he added.
BRICS, which initially comprised Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, expanded in 2024 to include Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran and UAE. Indonesia was the latest entrant.
Attack on X and India’s oil imports
Navarro, already facing criticism for controversial remarks on India’s energy imports, escalated his offensive by targeting social media platform X after it flagged his posts as “misleading.”
"More bullshit from X. Fact: India didn’t buy Russian oil in large quantities before Russia invaded Ukraine. It’s blood money and people are dying. Stick that up your keister Mother Jones and shame on you,” Navarro wrote on X on Monday.
Earlier, he had claimed that India buys Russian oil purely to "feed Russia's war machine," accusing New Delhi of indirectly supporting Moscow’s offensive in Ukraine. He even went as far as describing the conflict as "Modi's war."
"Everybody in America loses because of what India is doing. The consumers and businesses and everything lose, and workers lose because India’s high tariffs cost us jobs, and factories, and income and higher wages. And then the taxpayers lose because we got to fund Modi’s war," Navarro added.
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