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New Delhi: Trump aide Peter Navarro on Thursday (August 21) accused India of acting as a “laundromat for the Kremlin” and “cozying up to Xi Jinping”, warning that new US tariffs on Indian goods would take effect on August 27.

“Just six days from now, you see – I see that [the imposition of secondary tariffs on August 27] taking place. India doesn’t appear to want to recognise its role in the bloodshed. It simply doesn’t. It’s cozying up to Xi Jinping, that’s what it’s doing,” Navarro, a White House trade adviser, told reporters in Washington on Thursday.

Earlier in the day in Moscow, external affairs minister S Jaishankar had expressed puzzlement at the American move.

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