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“India and China are taking advantage of us”: US President Donald Trump

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Washington | US President Donald Trump has alleged that India and China have been taking advantage of the US for many years, and they are not a “developing” nation anymore.

Addressing a gathering at Pennsylvania on Tuesday, Donald Trump said that India and China- two major economies in Asia are no longer just developing nations, and they cannot benefit from that tag anymore.

“They (India and China) were taking advantage of us for years and years,” Donald Trump said.

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The US and China have been engaged in a trade war for many months now.

Donald Trump-led US government has also seen a couple of setbacks with trade in India.

Earlier in July, Trump asked the World Trade Organisation to define how it designates developing-country status, a move apparently aimed at singling out countries like China, Turkey and India which are getting lenient treatment under the global trade rules.

He said that India and China have been misusing the “developing” tag for a while now.

He claimed the WTO views certain countries like China and India as “they’re growing”.

“Well, they’ve grown,” he said.

Trump declared that he will not let such countries take advantage of the WTO. “We’re not letting that happen anymore…Everybody is growing but us,” he said.

He also claimed that if the situation has not improved, the US will have to pull out of the WTO. He said that they don’t have to abide by the WTO rules.

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In one day, BJP gets 10 MLAs in Sikkim assembly

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New Delhi | Ten MLAs from Sikkim Democratic Front have joined the Bharatiya Janata Party in New Delhi on Tuesday.

This has made the BJP now a main Opposition party in the state.

“The effective strength of the SDF legislature party is 13 and 10 of them joined the BJP today,” BJP general secretary Ram Madhav said.

“‘With this, the BJP will become the main opposition party in Sikkim, and we will play the role of a constructive opposition”, he said.

Former chief minister Pawan Kumar Chamling who is also from the SDF has not yet joined the saffron party.

SDF MLAs who joined the party include Dorjee Tshering Lepcha, Ugyen Tshering Gyatso, Narendra Kumar Subba, Dilli Ram Thapa, Karma Sonam Lepcha, Krishna Bahadur Rai, Tashi Thendup Bhutia, Farwanti Tamang, Pintso Namgyal Lepcha and Raj Kumari Thapa.

Dorjee Tshering Lepcha asserted that they wanted to grow the base of BJP in the state.

“We want lotus to bloom in Sikkim. The younger generation has accepted look east policy of Prime Minister Narendra Modi”, he said.

Seventeen is the magic number in the Sikkim assembly. But if ruling SKM loses the seat, it can move down to sixteen.

By-elections in the state will be conducted soon, and if they manage to win all the three seats, their tally can go up to 13, out of 32 seats in the house.

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