Jammu, July 7 -- Indian Foreign office is still silent on Deputy Secretary of State Landau's comment
By Satyaki Chakraborty
Amidst Trump-Modi bonhomie and the continuation of India-US trade talks, former Indian intelligence chief Vikram Sood said on Sunday in an interview to a British network that the present U.S. deputy secretary of state Christopher Landau told Indian officials during his visit to India in March 2026 that Washington would use tariffs, sanctions and other tools to curb India's rapid economic growth and would not allow it to emerge as a major power competing with USA.
According to Sood, Landau said in that New Delhi meeting" We made a mistake by helping China become a major economic power. We are not going to do that wit...