Overview

• In a Truth Social letter, the president said he will impose “major” U.S. sanctions on Russia only once all 32 NATO members enact matching measures and stop buying Russian oil.
• He also urged the alliance to adopt 50–100% tariffs on China to be lifted after the Ukraine war, arguing it would weaken Beijing’s economic leverage over Moscow.
• Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer pressed G7 counterparts for a unified front and for tariffs on countries purchasing Russian crude, including India and China.
• China rejected the tariff push, with Foreign Minister Wang Yi saying Beijing does not plot wars and warning that sanctions complicate conflicts.
• Coordination faces structural hurdles: Türkiye, Hungary and Slovakia still import Russian oil, the EU says its sanctions are not extra‑territorial, and NATO lacks a trade mandate.