US Congresswoman Haley Stevens has highlighted the advantages of working with India, contrasting New Delhi’s position with China’s ties to regimes opposed to Washington, days after returning from a bipartisan congressional visit to India.
But you have China in cahoots with these rogue regimes around the world,” Stevens said, making a case for closer cooperation with India. “India is not funding our detractors, for the most part. They really are not. She went on to say that the US government “got to be standing alongside democratic, free market trade partners like the country of India. The Congresswoman’ remarks come amid renewed uncertainty over US trade ties with India and China, as President Donald Trump’s administration prepares to use new tariff powers targeting countries that buy Russian oil. Stevens recently returned from a bipartisan congressional delegation’s visit to India, where lawmakers met Indian foreign secretary Vikram Misri to discuss bilateral ties and areas of cooperation.
It requires the president to impose tariffs on such countries within 30 days of the law’s signing, setting October 18 as the deadline.
“Honored to join a bipartisan Congressional delegation in meeting with Indian foreign secretary Misri to discuss the partnership between our two countries, the future of US-India relations, and the importance of Michigan manufacturing on the global stage,” she had said in a post on X. The ministry of external affairs said the implications of the legislation, “for not just the bilateral relationship but also the international energy market”, had been “very clearly articulated” to US interlocutors at high levels in recent months. The new legislation provides a separate, congressionally authorised basis for imposing tariffs on Russian energy buyers.
India had warned earlier that it would take steps to safeguard its economic interests.
