The Calm Before a Monetary Storm When India offered a sweeping zero-tariff deal to the U.S., it wasn’t just a desperate bid for favorable trade terms—it was a diplomatic test. One Trump immediately dismissed with a smirk and a swipe on Truth Social: "They have now offered to cut their Tariffs to nothing, but it’s getting late. They should have done so years ago.” Many in the mainstream media took that at face value. But the deeper story lies not in the offer itself—but in the timing. This proposal came as Prime Minister Modi rubbed elbows with Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin at the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation summit—a BRICS-dominated stage set explicitly to challenge U.S.-centric economic power structures. So what…
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