Amit Shah said India has a strong case, legal and historic, and it is not a claim but belief that Pakistan-occupied Kashmir belongs to India.

Capping a day dominated by a back-and-forth between the US and China, Donald Trump on Wednesday made two major announcements on tariffs, appearing to give most countries a breather but doubling down on his tough stance on Beijing.

After the US raised tariffs on China to 104%, Beijing retaliated, announcing that it will impose a levy of 84% on US imports, up from 34%, marking a significant escalation of the tariff trade war between the countries.   

The US counter-strike was swift, and brutal. 

Taking to his social media platform TruthSocial, the US president announced that he was raising tariffs on China even further- to 125%, effective immediately. 

“At some point, hopefully in the near future, China will realise that the days of ripping off the USA, and other countries, is no longer sustainable or acceptable,” Trump wrote.
 

Donald Trump’s reciprocal tariffs, which was meant to impose levies against all those who tariff US goods, has taken a fresh turn. It has evolved into a slugfest between China and the United States, with Washington now imposing a massive 125 per cent tax on all Chinese goods.

Announcing this on his social media platform Truth Social, President Trump said that while China will have to bear the brunt of 125 per cent tariffs, Washington has put a 90-day pause on the other 75 countries against whom reciprocal tariffs were imposed on April 2.

Slamming China for its “lack of respect” shown to world’s markets, President Trump intensified his punishing tariffs against the world’s second-largest economy. “Based on the lack of respect that China has shown to the World’s Markets, I am hereby raising the Tariff charged to China by the United States of America to 125%, effective immediately,” he wrote.

Reiterating his criticism of China for “robbing” and “ripping off” the United States’ economy for decades with its punitive tariff structures, unfair trade practices, currency manipulation tactics, and unjustified subsidy norms, President Trump wrote that “At some point, hopefully in the near future, China will realize that the days of ripping off the USA, and other countries, is no longer sustainable or acceptable.”