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[Rationale]

Please don't drag Pakistan into your bongiyan related to India attempting to stand up to the US.

A single favourable tweet from Donald Trump will have Surrender Modi wagging his tail in no time and China will become Number One Enemy of India. Hoorah.

I have no idea what that word salad means.

 

[Indos]

That is just an idiotic ignorance of how the world operates. US is a superpower and India is a great power. When they negotiate, they will obviously put pressure on each other. Both have real red lines and also positions that have staked out for negotiations , which they can compromise on to make the other side they have also walked away with something.

Buying Russian oil is not a strategic imperative for India. Before the Ukraine war started, India bought almost zero Russian oil. Going back to that position does not have negative strategic consequences for India, but India has successfully managed to position it as a major sticking point in the negotiations . By conceding it, India will be able to allow the US to claim a win while protecting real Indian strategic interests like not allowing unlimited access to India's dairy and agriculture markets.

Nah, I doubt that. US main export is agriculture, no way India can get away from it

Not buying Russian oil will only make India doesnt get 25 % additional tarrif penalty. Other 25 % will likely remain

 

[Vkdindian1]

no way India can get away from it

No Indian politician can allow US agricultural imports. That would be an end to that political party.
Deal or no deal.

Let’s wait a little and we would know.

 

[Indos]

No Indian politician can allow US agricultural imports. That would be an end to that political party.
Deal or no deal.

Let’s wait a little and we would know.

Slashing the tarrif from 50 % into 25 % is already a good deal while still securing India agriculture sector

 

[Vkdindian1]

Slashing the tarrif from 50 % into 25 % is already a good deal while still securing India agriculture sector

US agricultural products have scale of economics and would be much cheaper than Indian products by small farmers.

25% tariff reduction would be a big boon but not at he cost of small farmers. GDP contribution wise agriculture is not the biggest contributor but remains the biggest employer in India.
It is a hard task and I don’t know how our negotiators would handle it but, I don’t see US agricultural goods entering India the way they are trying to push.

 

[Rationale]

Nah, I doubt that. US main export is agriculture, no way India can get away from it

Not buying Russian oil will only make India doesnt get 25 % additional tarrif penalty. Other 25 % will likely remain

India will accept some agricultural imports and even provide commitments to purchase tens of billions of dollars of certain agricultural products, but completely opening up the economy to unlimited agricultural imports at 0% tariffs won't happen.

 

[Indos]

India will accept some agricultural imports and even provide commitments to purchase tens of billions of dollars of certain agricultural products, but completely opening up the economy to unlimited agricultural imports at 0% tariffs won't happen.

That what I am trying to say. Every thing just go into the normal. US already feel OK with India agricultural protection, so they give you 25 %

India only can manage not to import Russian oil thus get the tarrif slash into 25 % from 50 %

The negotiation I think is more on India ask US to do the Russian oil import cut gradually instead of all together

 

[Rationale]

That what I am trying to say. Every thing just go into the normal. US already feel OK with India agricultural protection, so they give you 25 %

India only can manage not to import Russian oil thus get the tarrif slash into 25 % from 50 %

The negotiation I think is more on India ask US to do the Russian oil import cut gradually instead of all together

Well, if you take out the Russia oil tariffs, the rate is already 25%. India is willing to make concessions in agriculture , just not to the extent that the US wants. If the US won't lower tariffs from 25%, then India will not give anything either. The chatter from the negotiations is that India is willing to open up the economy for significant US imports, but wants a reciprocal rate of under 15% in return. Let us see how it goes. It will probably be November before things are settled.

 

[Master Chief]

Do Pakistani ports accept sanctioned vessels ?

What in tarnation is this response?

Kindly address the contradiction between your statement, as I quoted, and facts on the ground as per the Adani group statement, prior to any feeble attempt at hyphenation between your nation and ours.

 

[Hakwa Nadro]

So was the India-China friendship show by Modi just media attention without any real results? Please give your opinions.

it was just to divert attention from what they were really doing, I guess bowing to China was the lesser humiliation vis a vis bowing to Trumps demands ( it would have been seen as a weakness). Bowing down to Mr Xi would be seen as bowing down to China whereas bowing down to Trump would be seen as bowing down to Trump and not the USA (Trump would have made sure of that). Also they thought they could somewhat control the narrative with China but they messed up there really badly too. The domestic pressure would have been overwhelming, not from the general public, they are to gullible but from the likes of Adani, Ambani, Tata and Birla. Financially they would be the ones losing the most. Lets wait and see how the Godi media spins this.

 

[PK781]

So was the India-China friendship show by Modi just media attention without any real results? Please give your opinions.

no matter what they do now, they're destined for a decline in their economy and affairs and suffering will increase. Imagine if countries started deporting indian workers......it would be a huge blowback. It could bring their economy to a crashing halt. There's simply too much poverty there even today (although they hide it well in their media).

 

[PAKISTANFOREVER]

It has started to appear through various media channels that India has started to take actions on American demands especially on black marketed Russian oil. In a surprised act, Adani group that operates Indian ports banned any Western sanctioned ship carrying Russian oil. Sources in media have said that whether openly or behind closed doors, India will apologise to Trump. India has a nearly $ 46 billion trade relationship with the US that's positive in India's favor. India can't afford to damage that relationship.

Indian FDI has dropped nearly 96% this year as well as slow down on tech jobs coming to India so India can't afford to damage relations with Trump.

India's Adani bans entry of sanctioned ships at its ports, sources say​

Nidhi Verma
Updated Thu, September 11, 2025 at 9:00 PM GMT+5·2 min read
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The logo of the Adani Group is seen on the facade of one of its buildings on the outskirts of Ahmedabad
By Nidhi Verma

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India's largest private port operator, Adani Group, has banned entry of tankers that are sanctioned by Western countries at all of its ports, three sources said and documents show, a move that could hit Russian oil supplies for two Indian refiners.

Adani did not immediately respond to Reuters requests for comment.

India is the biggest buyer of Russian seaborne oil, mostly shipped on tankers that are sanctioned by the European Union, the United States and Britain.

HPCL-Mittal Energy Ltd, which operates a 226,000-barrels per day Bathinda refinery in northern Punjab state, gets all of its crude supplies at Adani's Mundra Port in western Gujarat state.

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indians will comply. They the indians are still very pro-american and aspire to be in the american/western camp.

 

[RajaBaja]

indians will comply. They the indians are still very pro-american and aspire to be in the american/western camp.

They have no choice. America single handedly made them into a nation worth $4 trillion today, from literally ashes of poorness 30 years ago. The Indians are used to American free gravy by fooling them with "our billion people will become your consumers" and "we'll fight China" themes. So the way they made money from America, it's not possible elsewhere. So they will do everything that Trump wants, period.

 

[RajaBaja]

it was just to divert attention from what they were really doing, I guess bowing to China was the lesser humiliation vis a vis bowing to Trumps demands ( it would have been seen as a weakness). Bowing down to Mr Xi would be seen as bowing down to China whereas bowing down to Trump would be seen as bowing down to Trump and not the USA (Trump would have made sure of that). Also they thought they could somewhat control the narrative with China but they messed up there really badly too. The domestic pressure would have been overwhelming, not from the general public, they are to gullible but from the likes of Adani, Ambani, Tata and Birla. Financially they would be the ones losing the most. Lets wait and see how the Godi media spins this.

I've been seeing Indian and Israeli tactics. I've learned a few things, one of them is, they lie. 100% everything they do, there is a deception element to it. I think bowing down to Xi was a trap for China. Modi has started to bow down to Trump, they can't live without American money and jobs, period.

But bowing down to Xi, militarily, I believe was an attempt to send a message to China and make them believe that India doesn't want a fight or war with them. That will work on Chinese as they are naturally against wars and their military posture will stand down. This will reduce the "two front war" India knew it would fight. One enemy out of the two.

That gives them time and FULL effort in dealing with Pakistan, the only threat left. So I believe the preparations are full Indian military strength towards Pakistan in the next conflict to make some victory and make up for this May's defeat. While keeping China on friendly terms for later. Don't think they will make friends with China in a real sense. It's just a tactic to buy time and remove the bigger enemy from the "two front" scenario.

 

[Rationale]

What in tarnation is this response?

Kindly address the contradiction between your statement, as I quoted, and facts on the ground as per the Adani group statement, prior to any feeble attempt at hyphenation between your nation and ours.

Your quote implied that what Adani was saying was something out of the ordinary, otherwise there would have been no reason to quote it. So, I was just curious if the practice in Pakistan was different from what Adani said they planned to do.