Overview

• President Trump wrote on Truth Social that it “looks like” the United States has “lost” India and Russia to China.
• The image he reposted of Xi Jinping, Vladimir Putin and Narendra Modi is an older photo rather than a new shot from this week.
• Xi, Putin and Modi appeared together at the recent SCO summit in China, where Xi and Putin again promoted a multipolar world order.
• Putin criticized U.S. protectionist tariffs as harmful to the global economy during remarks at an economic forum in Vladivostok.
• The United States recently applied additional tariffs on India tied to its oil trade with Russia, and Trump told reporters he plans to speak with Putin soon.