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Brazilian President Lula responded to Trump’s tariff threats by saying the satellite does not ‘want an emperor’ who lashes retired implicit the internet.
United States President Donald Trump has threatened to hike tariffs against the BRICS economical bloc after the radical offered indirect disapproval of commercialized wars and the caller subject attacks successful Iran.
On Monday, Trump took purpose astatine the 10-member bloc, which seeks to fortify emerging economies, framing its interests arsenic adversarial to the US’s.
“Any Country aligning themselves with the Anti-American policies of BRICS, volition beryllium charged an ADDITIONAL 10% Tariff,” Trump wrote successful a post. “There volition beryllium nary exceptions to this policy. Thank you for your attraction to this matter!”
BRICS is named for its founding members, Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. But it has grown to see different countries, specified arsenic Indonesia, Egypt, Iran and the United Arab Emirates.
Over the weekend, the radical held its 17th acme successful Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The gathering culminated successful a declaration angled astatine promoting bid and planetary cooperation.
But respective items successful the associated declaration appeared to beryllium aimed astatine the US and its state Israel, adjacent though neither was identified by name. Under a conception entitled “Strengthening Multilateralism and Reforming Global Governance”, for instance, the BRICS leaders called retired the expanding usage of tariffs successful planetary trade.
This seemed directed astatine Trump, who has threatened US trading partners with a suite of tariffs to negociate much favourable commercialized deals and nonstop argumentation concessions.
The US president has besides called tariffs “the astir beauteous connection to maine successful the dictionary”, though galore economists pass that the outgo of specified import taxes is often offset onto consumers.
Trump has besides championed the usage of different protectionist economical policies, nether the banner of his “America First” agenda. But the BRICS leaders warned that these kinds of policies could backfire.
“We dependable superior concerns astir the emergence of unilateral tariff and non-tariff measures which distort commercialized and are inconsistent with WTO [World Trade Organization] rules,” the BRICS leaders said successful their statement.
Such measures, they continued, could “reduce planetary trade, disrupt planetary proviso chains, and present uncertainty into planetary economical and commercialized activities, perchance exacerbating existing economical disparities”.
The BRICS leaders besides utilized their declaration to denounce the caller subject strikes connected 1 of the bloc’s subordinate nations, Iran.
“We condemn the subject strikes against the Islamic Republic of Iran since 13 June 2025, which represent a usurpation of planetary law,” they wrote, adding that “peaceful atomic facilities” had been targeted.
Israel carried retired the archetypal attacks against Iran successful the 12-day warfare connected June 13, and connected June 22, the US sent 7 B-2 Spirit stealth bombers to Iran to onslaught 3 atomic facilities. Both Israel and the US person maintained that these actions were indispensable to forestall Iran from acquiring a atomic weapon, though Iran has denied seeking one.
In the aftermath of Trump’s tariff threat, BRICS leaders rushed to guarantee their US counterparts that they are not seeking confrontation. Others, however, chafed astatine Trump’s remarks.
“I became alert of what President Trump tweeted, and I deliberation determination needs to beryllium greater appreciation of the emergence of assorted centres of powerfulness successful the world,” said South African President Cyril Ramaphosa. “And this should beryllium seen successful a affirmative light, alternatively than successful a antagonistic light.”
Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva took an adjacent blunter attack to Trump’s threats.
“I don’t deliberation it’s precise liable oregon superior for the president of a state arsenic large arsenic the United States to spell astir threatening the satellite done the internet,” Lula said successful a question-and-answer league with reporters.
“It’s not right. The satellite has changed. We don’t privation an emperor.”
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