{"id":355611,"date":"2025-08-08T13:49:21","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T08:19:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=355611"},"modified":"2025-08-08T13:54:16","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T08:24:16","slug":"trump-tariff-tyranny-a-positive-outcome-is-bonding-of-global-south","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/trump-tariff-tyranny-a-positive-outcome-is-bonding-of-global-south\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump tariff tyranny: a positive outcome may be bonding of ‘Global South’"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Brazil dials India while a section of Chinese media backs India in tariff wars <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The term “Global South” is often used to describe nations that may be  developing or underdeveloped, mainly in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. However, not anymore, with change in times these countries are becoming more prominent globally, pushing for a fairer world system and working together on development issues through what is being called ‘South-South’ cooperation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In fact they are openly challenging the so-called wealthier countries of the “Global North,”  primarily North America and Europe, on the basis of  shared political, geopolitical and economic needs<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Shift in equation <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The shift in global wealth and influence towards ‘Global South,’ especially China and India, is something that US President Donald Trump needs to factor in while taking decisions like he has been in his 2.0 avatar, say analysts <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In fact,  a section of Chinese media backed India, saying that some Indians are now beginning to realise that what they thought was a strong partnership with the US may have only been one-sided, according to reports <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The article titled ‘India\u2019s strategic balancing hits the wall of US unilateral hegemony’ in a publication argued that India is being punished not for buying Russian oil but for not doing what the US wants, they added <\/p>\n\n\n\n

World is changing<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The article also hinted that in America\u2019s eyes, India may never have been treated as an equal partner, just someone to use when convenient.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump on Wednesday issued an executive order slapping an additional 25% tariff on Indian goods as a penalty for buying Russian oil, doubling it to 50%. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the new tariff, India now shares the top spot with Brazil, which is also facing a combined 50% tariff under Trump\u2019s adjusted trade regime<\/p>\n\n\n\n

India has already said that it will take \u201call actions necessary to protect its national interests\u201d in response to US President Donald Trump imposing additional 25 percent tariff on Indian imports, taking the total tariffs to 50 percent,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Amid ongoing tariff tensions Trump, on Thursday Brazilian President Luiz In\u00e1cio Lula da Silva also dialled Prime Minister Narendra Modi with both leaders committing to deepening strategic partnership, including in trade, energy, tech, defence, health and more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, National Security Advisor (NSA) Ajit Doval called on Russian President Vladimir Putin at the Kremlin on Thursday, the Kremlin press service said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Doval is in Moscow for talks on bilateral energy and defence ties and to prepare the ground for Putin\u2019s visit to India later this year, according to reports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Brazil dials India while a section of Chinese media backs India in tariff wars  The term “Global South” is often used to describe nations that may be  developing or underdeveloped, mainly in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. However, not anymore, with change in times these countries are becoming more prominent globally, pushing for a fairer […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":187,"featured_media":306592,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15917,15084,36],"tags":[16627,18841,16742,16107,316],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355611"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/187"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=355611"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":355613,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355611\/revisions\/355613"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/306592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}