Shashi Tharoor tells Trump that colonialism is over and that he is a hypocrite.
I recently gave some comments to India’s NDTV about the decline of the US in the global society. It was on its Friday evening “India Ascends” program. It was about the same time as the Trump Regime slapped 50% tariffs on India for its import of oil from Russia.
By Jan Oberg
Since it was the first time they approached me, I did a little research, and NDTV is a very large quality media outlet in India. The 2024 survey by the Reuters Institute at Oxford University has found that NDTV 24X7 is India’s most-watched news channel and ndtv.com is the most popular news website. According to the Reuters Institute’s Digital News Report 2024, NDTV accounts for 33 per cent of weekly use across the television, radio and print media (in India). More about it on Wikipedia.
While looking around at NDTV’s homepage, I stumbled upon a fine piece by Dr. Sashi Tharoor, “Trump Tariffs: Talks Are Welcome, But India Shouldn’t Give In To Bullying,” about Trump’s indeed weird idea that countries that still trade with Russia should be punished.
I happen to know Tharoor a bit from the time when he was Assistant Secretary-General of the UN and was also, in the opinion of many, a likely candidate to become Secretary-General. He is a splendid, sharp intellectual, which you can find out by watching the bonus video I’ve posted at the very end below.
Here he is in his usual, very well-informed and eloquent style, talking about Trump’s tariffs. As NDTV presents it, Tharoor “schools” Donald Trump and tells him that colonialism is over. He also tells how unfair and hypocritical Trump’s tariffs are, given how much the US and Europe still trade with Russia:
It’s a delight to watch.
It seems likely that the top leaders of India and China will meet at the end of August 2025. Despite the two giants’ differences and disagreements on many things, perhaps it is time for them to balance advantages and disadvantages differently in a broader temporal and spatial context?
Fortunately, the editor of China’s politically significant Global Times seems to think that it is high time.
