Saagar

And I told the Indians that Indian leaders many times courted to be on our side against China.

Join what's called the Quad, which is an informal group of the United States, India, Japan and Australia that supposedly are the major powers to surround China and to keep China contained.

And I said to the Indians, Indian leadership, many times, this is a bad idea.

Don't be used by the United States.

They many times, many said to me, you know, we have a good inside track.

We have good relations and so forth.

During the past year, all of that has broken.

Predictably, in my view, I have to say, I told them so very, very explicitly.

And what did we see in Shanghai at the Shanghai Cooperation Organization?

We saw Prime Minister Modi, President Xi of China, and President Putin of Russia in close embrace.

Of course, they're in a close embrace.

They have a United States that is completely erratic, doesn't have a consistency hour to hour, much less day to day, week to week, or month to month.

Every day is a new threat.

Every day is a new slur.

Every day is a new tariff.

Every day is a new executive decree.

Of course, these are serious countries that are actually not interested in playing some game.

of Donald Trump's mind, but actually interested in stability, their nuclear powers.

They don't want a nuclear war.

They don't want to be brazenly threatened or pushed around by the United States.