{"id":2337,"date":"2025-06-21T12:30:12","date_gmt":"2025-06-21T12:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/2337\/"},"modified":"2025-06-21T12:30:12","modified_gmt":"2025-06-21T12:30:12","slug":"labelling-asean-countries-as-chinas-b-team-unwarranted-insulting-congress-india-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/2337\/","title":{"rendered":"Labelling ASEAN countries as China\u2019s \u2018B-team\u2019 unwarranted, insulting: Congress | India News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Congress on Friday hit out at Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal for his remarks against the India-ASEAN trade agreements, signed under the UPA government, saying labelling these countries as \u201cB team of China\u201d is \u201cirresponsible and insulting\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at the India Global Forum (IGF) session in London, Goyal said, \u201cThere was a point of time 15 years ago when we were more focused on doing FTAs with countries who were our competitors. So if I am doing an ASEAN agreement, it really is silly because (that is) opening up my market to my competitors, many of whom have now become the B team of China.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img class=\"lazyloading\" decoding=\"async\" data-lazy-type=\"lazyloading-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/track_1x1.jpg\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/track_1x1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1px\" height=\"1px\" style=\"display:none;\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo effectively and indirectly, I have opened up my market for goods that find their way from China into India,\u201d Goyal had said.<\/p>\n<p>Story continues below this ad<\/p>\n<p>Sharma, a former Union Commerce Minister, Friday said in a statement, \u201c<a rel=\"noamphtml noopener\" class=\"keywordtourl\" href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/about\/Piyush-Goyal\/\" target=\"_blank\">Piyush Goyal<\/a>\u2019s statement terming the Trade agreement with ASEAN as silly and labelling these countries as B team of China is irresponsible and insulting.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He said India and ASEAN countries \u201chave been engaged in a multifaceted relationship for over three decades\u201d which is \u201cmutually rewarding and important\u201d.\u00a0 \u201cThis is an integral part of the Look East policy to deepen and diversify India\u2019s relations with a region economically vibrant and of enormous geostrategic importance\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Commerce Minister should be prioritising strengthening trade relations with partner countries and not insulting them while bending backwards to negotiate a suboptimal trade agreement with US on its terms,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Congress on Friday hit out at Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal for his remarks against the India-ASEAN trade&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2338,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[64,327,3240,79,3236,3239,3237,67,132,3238,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-2337","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-congress","10":"tag-current-affairs","11":"tag-economy","12":"tag-india-asean-trade-agreements","13":"tag-indian-express-news","14":"tag-piyush-goyal","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-unitedstates","17":"tag-upa-government","18":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114721365953415366","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2337\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}