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Evan A. Feigenbaum

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Evan A. Feigenbaum

@EvanFeigenbaum

Leading voice on Asia, experienced across government, think tanks and markets. Advisor to two Secretaries of State, a former Treasury Secretary and global CEOs.

Washington, DC

Joined May 2014

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Evan A. Feigenbaum
@EvanFeigenbaum
Feb 19
In Asia, the United States is long on attitude, short on strategy. Re-upping this podcast deep dive I did last year into America's gathering policy failures in Asia. I pull the thread on several themes: 1. America's oversecuritization of its approach to Asia - to borrow the
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Evan A. Feigenbaum
@EvanFeigenbaum
Mar 12, 2020
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Evan A. Feigenbaum
@EvanFeigenbaum
Sep 1, 2025
As national security advisor, it's really past time for Rubio to enforce some message discipline on this guy.
Shashank Mattoo
@MattooShashank
Sep 1, 2025
“I want Indians to understand what is going on. Brahmins are profiteering by buying Russian oil at the expense of the Indian people,” says Trump’s trade adviser Peter Navarro
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Evan A. Feigenbaum
@EvanFeigenbaum
Aug 19, 2025
"Sanctions on India" ... I was deeply involved in the last phase of the civil nuclear deal in 2008. Let's just say that if U.S. officials don't understand why references to "sanctions," much less actual sanctions, are neuralgic for Delhi, they had best learn some history quick.
Sidhant Sibal
@sidhant
Aug 19, 2025
Breaking: President Trump has put 'sanctions' on India to put 'this war (in Ukraine) to a close' & he 'wants to see this war end' says White House Spokesperson Karoline Leavitt
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Evan A. Feigenbaum
@EvanFeigenbaum
Aug 26, 2025
But penalty tariffs on India.
The Wall Street Journal
@WSJ
Aug 26, 2025
Breaking: Exxon has held secret talks with Russia’s biggest state energy company about resuming business in the country on.wsj.com/4oUBakI
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Evan A. Feigenbaum
@EvanFeigenbaum
Jul 30, 2025
So China gets another extension while India gets smacked with 25% and threats on oil purchases. The contrast won't be lost on anyone in Delhi.
Reuters
@Reuters
Jul 30, 2025
US and Chinese officials agreed to seek an extension of their 90-day tariff truce, following two days of what both sides described as constructive talks in Stockholm aimed at defusing an escalating trade war reut.rs/3U6UmxD
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Evan A. Feigenbaum
@EvanFeigenbaum
Aug 21, 2025
This is complete nonsense. We’ve gone from “the war is Moscow’s fault, enabled by Beijing and others” to “the war is Ukraine’s fault, enabled by India.” These guys have tanked 25 years of work to build US-India relations by passing the buck. Will go down in India like lead.
Shashank Mattoo
@MattooShashank
Aug 21, 2025
"The road to peace in Ukraine goes through New Delhi," says White House trade advisor Peter Navarro
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Evan A. Feigenbaum
@EvanFeigenbaum
Aug 14, 2025
How the United States went from organizing a counter China coalition to organizing a counter India coalition will be retold someday as one of the strangest stories in American diplomatic history.
Shashank Mattoo
@MattooShashank
Aug 14, 2025
'We have put tariffs on India for buying Russian oil. If things with Putin don't go well, I could see tariffs going up. The Europeans also need to join us in these sanctions," says US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent
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Evan A. Feigenbaum
@EvanFeigenbaum
Sep 6, 2025
I say "night is day," "dark is light," "the Earth is flat," and "pigs can fly."
Spencer Hakimian
@SpencerHakimian
Sep 6, 2025
“Tariffs are tax cuts.” - Peter Navarro 🤣🤣🤣
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Evan A. Feigenbaum
@EvanFeigenbaum
Jul 30, 2025
This guy is going to tank 25 years of bipartisan effort to transform U.S.-India relations.
Press Trust of India
@PTI_News
Jul 30, 2025
US President Donald Trump on Truth Social, posts, "Remember, while India is our friend, we have, over the years, done relatively little business with them because their Tariffs are far too high, among the highest in the World, and they have the most strenuous and obnoxious
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Evan A. Feigenbaum
@EvanFeigenbaum
Aug 20, 2025
“And now India is going to find out what that feels like” … So the goal is to inflict pain and possibly even take pleasure in it? These guys have tanked 25 years of bipartisan work in under a month.
Aditya Raj Kaul
@AdityaRajKaul
Aug 20, 2025
US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent makes no sense while defending tariffs against India. “America has placed high tariffs on China for a while. And now India is going to find out what that feels like”. You can’t have strategic partnership & tariffs both.
Shashank Mattoo
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Evan A. Feigenbaum
@EvanFeigenbaum
Aug 27, 2025
The conflict in Ukraine is Putin's war, not "Modi's war" and anyone who thinks this patently ridiculous formulation is going to provide leverage with New Delhi is beyond delusional. At this point, this is sabotage, pure and simple. And it is hard to escape the conclusion that
Bloomberg
@business
Aug 27, 2025
White House trade adviser Peter Navarro sought to raise pressure on India to halt purchases of Russian energy after the US imposed crippling new tariffs on New Delhi, casting the conflict in Ukraine as “Modi’s war" bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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Evan A. Feigenbaum
@EvanFeigenbaum
Aug 6, 2025
There's an interesting dynamic emerging where the EU, Japan, South Korea, and much of ASEAN caved to Washington's pressure quickly while Brazil, China, India, and South Africa dig in. Not be flip but the President may win his Nobel after all for contributions to the BRICS.
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Evan A. Feigenbaum
@EvanFeigenbaum
Aug 29, 2025
These guys have tanked 25 years of painstaking and bipartisan work to build productive U.S.-India relations. "The road to peace in Ukraine" most certainly does not "run through New Delhi" and it is quite the deflection to say so. The President of the United States was smiling
Peter Navarro
@RealPNavarro
Aug 28, 2025
Replying to @RealPNavarro
9/ The Biden admin largely looked the other way at this madness. President Trump is confronting it. A 50% tariff—25% for unfair trade and 25% for national security—is a direct response. If India, the world's largest democracy, wants to be treated like a strategic partner of
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