India, Aug. 31 -- With a reset underway in the India-China equation in light of a hawkish trade policy by the US, a top Chinese expert in geopolitics has described Donald Trump's imposition of high tariffs on India and others as "the biggest kid in the classroom going around and stealing people's lunch money".

He also dismissed Trump's claims of having forced India and Pakistan into a ceasefire using trade as leverage. "Trump was not a key player in this. This was something beyond him. And if you start looking at all the 'wars that he's ended', they're still fighting," Einar Tangen, Senior Fellow at the thinktank Taihe Institute in Beijing, said to NDTV in an online interaction.

He was speaking in light of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's...