US Congressman Shows Mirror To Islamabad, Says India Brings Investment
New York : US Congressman and a member of Donald Trump’s Republican party, Rich McCormick, said, unlike India, Islamabad doesn’t bring investments into America. Pointing out India’s economic and strategic importance, at a time when ties with Washington have come under strain over tariffs and trade, McCormick said, “Pakistan is a country with 300 million people.
Talent matters, and India is supplying a tremendous amount of talent. Not just in exporting talented people, but also in what they are filling in,” the Republican leader further said. Over the past few months, Trump has warmed up to Pakistan at the cost of alienating India, with whom successive US presidents have built ties as a counterweight to China in the Indo-Pacific region. Adding to McCormick’s remarks, Indian-origin US Congressman Ami Bera, who was also part of the event, underlined that despite the warming up, US companies were not investing in Pakistan.
America is not creating a strategic partnership with Pakistan. American companies are not putting multi-billion-dollar investments in Pakistan. All of that is happening in India,” Bera, a Democrat, said. Ties between the US and India have soured under Trump 2.0 after Washington slapped Delhi with an additional 25% tariff, taking the total to 50%, over its purchase of Russian oil — a revenue source the White House said was sustaining Moscow’s war in Ukraine. A deadlock over a bilateral trade deal has further complicated matters.
Shedding light on this, McCormick said the US “hates” that India was still buying Russian oil even though it understood why New Delhi was continuing to trade with Moscow. Calling PM Modi “extremely nationalistic”, the Republican said India was purchasing Russian oil to expand its economy with cheap energy.
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