‘Two great countries will get this solved’: Scott Bessent on trade talks with India; calls SCO meeting ‘largely performative’

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'Totally one sided': Trump on trade with India US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Tuesday expressed confidence in resolving trade frictions with India claiming that the "two great countries will get this solved". Bessent, however, down played the significance of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit where Prime Minister Narendra Modi met Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping.When asked about PM Modi’s engagement with Putin and Xi on the sidelines of the SCO summit in Tianjin, Bessent was dismissive. “This is a longstanding meeting, it’s called the Shanghai Cooperation Organization and I think it’s largely performative,” he...