India cannot remain ‘mute spectator’ as institutions like WTO are destroyed, says Congress

The Congress on Friday (August 1, 2025) asserted that India has the highest stakes in institutions such as the WTO and WHO which are being "destroyed" and "gutted" by U.S. President Donald Trump, and cannot remain a mute spectator while being content with coining slogans and acronyms.

Congress general secretary in-charge communications Jairam Ramesh said the World Trade Organisation (WTO) had been dealt very heavy blows during Mr. Trump-I.

"It has been destroyed during Trump-II. The rules-based, multilateral trading system put in place with the US itself playing a leadership role has been finished off," Mr. Ramesh claimed.

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The U.S.'s approach now is to negotiate — if at all--bilaterally but finally decide unilaterally, the Congress leader said in a post on X.