White House trade adviser Peter Navarro on Monday said India’s purchases of Russian crude were funding Moscow’s war in Ukraine and had to stop.

New Delhi was “now cosying up to both Russia and China”, Navarro wrote in an opinion piece published in the Financial Times today.

“If India wants to be treated as a strategic partner of the United States, it needs to start acting like one.”

India’s Foreign Ministry has previously said the country is being unfairly singled out for buying Russian oil........

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