Peter Navarro Warns India of 'Chinese Ships,' Says 'See How That Works Out, Modi'
New Delhi: The White House trade advisor Peter Navarro, has made a reference to "vampires" while discussing BRICS. After consistently lashing out at India's oil trade with Russia, Navarro has now targeted other countries too in the BRICS bloc, that India is a part of.
Navarro was speaking to Steve Bannon, in his The War Room podcast. This podcast is seen as influential in the right-wing MAGA world of Trump and Republican supporters.
Navarro spoke on what he sees as contradictions within the group which came into being in 2009. Yesterday, there was an online BRICS summit which Modi did not attend but India’s foreign minister, S. Jaishankar did in his place.
Navarro spoke about China assisting Pakistan with getting a nuclear bomb, and with Chinese ships with its flags now all over the Indian ocean – “see how that works out, Modi”, he said.
Navarro tweeted his comments on the TV station, "India and China have been at war for decades, China have Pakistan the nuclear bomb and now Chinese ships are in the Indian Ocean, so let's see how that works out Modi "
I don’t see the BRICS alliance lasting.
They’ve long hated each other—and none survive without selling to the United States. pic.twitter.com/0vqNq8fZaE
— Peter Navarro (@RealPNavarro) September 8, 2025
Navarro is seen as a weather vane to indicate what the mercurial US President Donald Trump may be thinking.
It is significant that Trump has not responded to the olive branch extended by Indian PM Modi to Trump on X, after news agency ANI reported a part of Trump’s press conference to suggest that Trump was making overtures to India and had toned down from before.
Peter Navarro cast doubts on the alliance between the bloc of countries, seen as a threat to US hegemony in the world. He said that none of them "would survive without selling to the United States".
"...when they sell to the US their exports, they are like vampires sucking our blood dry with their unfair trade practices," Navarro said, adding that all countries part of the BRICS union historically "hate each other and kill each other".
Analysts said India had been trying to balance between its ties with the US and with China and Russia at BRICS, as other member states used the platform to sharply criticise Washington’s tariff measures, albeit without naming the United States, Jaishankar framed India’s intervention around wider global challenges.
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