New Delhi,

August 7, 2025

Press Release

CPI Condemns US Trade Aggression; Calls for Assertion of India’s Strategic Autonomy and Commitment to Multipolarity

The National Secretariat of the Communist Party of India issued today (August 7, 2025) the following statement:

The Communist Party of India strongly condemns the bullying tactics of US President Donald Trump by imposing punitive 50% tariffs on India in retaliation for its oil trade with Russia. This blatant weaponisation of trade relations is an attack on India’s autonomy and a crude attempt to enforce an exclusionary and decadent US-led world order. Such actions are aimed at coercing independent nations into submission and undermining their right to pursue sovereign foreign and economic policies.

Global policy making cannot be allowed to bend to the whims of any one country’s leadership, particularly one as erratic and hostile as Donald Trump. These latest developments reflect the deep unease in US policy circles about the irreversible rise of multipolarity and the growing confidence of emerging economies. Instead of accepting this reality, the United States continues to resort to threats and trade aggression to maintain its global hegemony.

India must firmly assert its strategic autonomy and reject any external diktats on whom it engages with economically or politically. The increasing tilt in India’s foreign policy towards the United States through arrangements like the QUAD is short-sighted and dangerous. A volatile and self-serving United States cannot be trusted as a reliable partner. India must reorient its priorities towards greater South-South solidarity, deepen cooperation with emerging economies, and contribute actively to building a democratic and multipolar global order.

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Roykutty

Office Secretary