BRICS unlikely to last – Trump trade adviser

Peter Navarro has claimed that the members of the group have “long hated each other”

White House Trade Adviser Peter Navarro has claimed that the BRICS group is unlikely to last because the members have “long hated each other.”

In an interview with US President Donald Trump’s former strategist, Steve Bannon, on Monday, Navarro said none of the BRICS members could survive without selling products to the US.

”India has been at war with China for decades… and I just remembered, it was China that gave Pakistan the nuclear bomb,” Navarro told Bannon. “They have ships flying around the Indian Ocean with Chinese flags. [Indian Prime Minister Narendra] Modi, see how you kind of work that out.”

He added that China is sending illegal immigrants to Russia and has claimed territory within Russia. “China claims they own Vladivostok, the Russian port, and they are already through massive illegal immigration into Siberia, basically colonizing Siberia, which is the biggest landmass of the Russian semi-empire.” 

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China, however, does not claim any Russian territory, and the two countries signed the Complementary Agreement on the Eastern Section of the China-Russia Boundary in 2004 as a final resolution of their border dispute. 

”I don’t see how [BRICS] stays together since historically they hate each other and kill each other,” the trade adviser added.

Navarro claimed that BRICS countries are dependent on the US for trade. “The bottom line is none of these countries can survive if they don’t sell to the United States, and when they sell to the United States, their exports, they’re like vampires sucking our blood dry with their unfair trade practices.”

X posts made by the trade adviser that are critical of India have been fact-checked and have received Community Notes, for which he has accused Indian “special interests” of “trying to interfere with domestic dialogues with lies about India buying Russian oil.”

A day after he called Community Notes from India “crap,” Navarro added: “India has [the] largest population in the world and all it can do is manage [a] few hundred thousand X propagandists to jerk around a poll?”

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