US President Donald Trump on Friday targeted Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Russian President Vladimir Putin over their meeting with Chinese Premier Xi Jinping during the SCO summit this week.
“Looks like we’ve lost India and Russia to deepest, darkest, China. May they have a long and prosperous future together!” Trump wrote on Truth Social.
Trump’s explosive post comes as Putin and Modi, along with leaders of 26 other nations, met Xi in China’s Tianjin at the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation summit. The summit was held amid 50 per cent tariffs imposed by the US on Indian imports and just weeks after Putin and Trump met in Alaska to discuss a ceasefire in the Russia-Ukraine war.
While the talks yielded no outcome, Trump said on Thursday that he remains committed to pursuing a peace agreement despite mounting uncertainty over a one-on-one meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymy Zelenskyy.