New Delhi was "now cozying up to both Russia and China," Navarro wrote in an opinion piece published in the Financial Times on Monday. "If India wants to be treated as a strategic partner of the U.S.,

White House advisor Peter Navarro criticized India's Russian oil imports in an op-ed after Trump announced new tariffs targeting India and other countries buying Russian energy.

The dramatic increase in India’s buying of Russian oil since the invasion of Ukraine is “opportunistic and deeply corrosive” of a global effort to isolate the Kremlin and curb Vladimir Putin’s war machine,