America’s ‘warning’
The words and the general tone and tenor of the U.S. Deputy National Security Adviser for International Economics, Daleep Singh — that “there will be consequences for any country, including India, that conducts local currency transactions through Russia’s central bank....” — is akin to a headstrong master making a not-so-a-veiled threat towards his fealty vassal (Page 1, April 1). More than that, he raises the spectre of ‘Chinese incursions’ in an ‘attempt’ to make India mend its ways. The hubristic supremacism of the U.S. is unmistakable.
Ayyasseri Raveendranath,
