New Delhi, Sept. 19 -- Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Russian President Vladimir Putin sharing a limousine ride during the Shanghai Cooperation Organization meeting in China earlier this week was a meaningful gesture that sent a direct message to Washington amid United States' tarriff push against India's oil imports from Moscow, according to political scientist and Eurasia Group President Ian Bremmer.

In an exclusive interview with ANI, Bremmer said, "If the Americans aren't even interested in a strong Europe, it's hard to imagine they're going to be very interested in a strong India. And that is more unilateralist in orientation," Bremmer said on broader strategic alignments.

He recalled that PM Modi, unlike other SCO countries did ...