India Tilts Toward BRICS as Pakistan Stays Close to Washington

U.S. President Donald Trump is taking India to task, and we are a long way from what then-President Barack Obama called a "defining partnership of the 21st century." But India’s neighbor, and enemy, and America’s frenemy, escaped Trump’s ire. Why? Despite a successful visit to India by Vice-President J.D. Vance in April 2025, and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to the White House in February 2025, Trump hit India, America’s #12 trade partner, with two rounds of 25% tariffs. (Pakistan’s tariff of 19%,…