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White House Trade Adviser Peter Navarro has renewed his disapproval of India, questioning wherefore Americans are paying for Artificial Intelligence successful India.
Mr. Navarro's comments connected Saturday (January 17, 2026) came amid a strain successful India-U.S. ties, which began aft U.S. President Donald Trump slapped a 50% tariff connected New Delhi, including a 25% further work for its acquisition of Russian crude oil.
In an interrogation connected Real America's Voice, Mr. Navarro said,"…It’s like, wherefore are Americans paying for AI successful India? Chat GPT (is) operating connected U.S. soil, utilizing American electricity, servicing ample users of Chat GPT, for example, successful India and China and elsewhere astir the world. So that's different contented that's got to beryllium dealt with."
His comments came arsenic ties betwixt New Delhi and Washington are reeling nether strain connected respective different issues isolated from tariffs, including Mr. Trump's assertion of ending the India-Pakistan struggle successful May past twelvemonth and Washington's caller migration policy.
Last year, Mr. Navarro consistently ranted against India for Delhi's purchases of Russian lipid and precocious tariffs, calling India the "Maharajah of tariffs."
He had besides termed India's purchases of Russian lipid arsenic "blood money" and said Delhi didn't bargain lipid from Moscow successful ample quantities earlier the Ukraine conflict.
New Delhi has maintained that, similar immoderate large economy, it volition instrumentality each indispensable measures to safeguard its nationalist interests and economical security.
In a diatribe targeting the BRICS nations, Mr. Navarro had said the "bottom line" is that nary of the countries successful the grouping tin "survive if they don't merchantability to the United States. And erstwhile they merchantability to the United States, their exports, they're similar vampires sucking our humor adust with their unfair commercialized practices."
