Spare China but Hit India: US Secretary of State Defends Russian Oil Hypocrisy

Why Trump hiked India tariffs but extended truce with China for Russian oil: Rubio cites Beijing's supply chain role

Rubio has defended Washington’s decision to impose additional tariffs on India for continuing to import Russian oil, while sparing China from similar measures, warning that sanctioning Beijing could push up global energy prices.

Spare China but hit India: US Secretary of State defends Russian oil hypocrisy

Speaking to Fox News on August 17, Marco Rubio cautioned that targeting Chinese refiners would have disruptive consequences for the global oil market.

Marco Rubio explains why India is being tariffed but not China

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has come out with a justification for President Donald Trump’s so-called hypocrisy when sparing China from tariffs while escalating tariff tensions with India. Rubio has explained why America has spared China — Russia’s biggest oil buyer — from any secondary sanctions, even as 50% tariffs were imposed on India, including a 25% duty for New Delhi’s trade with Moscow. According to Rubio, the majority of Russian …

Rubio Cautions Against Sanctioning China Over Russian Oil, Highlighting Global “Implications”

WASHINGTON – During a recent interview with Fox News, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio expressed worries about the effects of punishing China for continuing to buy Russian oil on a global scale. Rubio changed the subject to the bigger “implications” of such secondary penalties when asked if the US was thinking about punishing Europe for its energy deals with Russia. He said that if the US went after Russian oil deliveries to China, Beijing woul…