New Delhi, Aug. 1 -- As US-India trade negotiations continue, President Donald Trump has imposed a 25% tariff on Indian imports, while making a string of assertions about the country on his Truth Social platform.

Trump's comments can be distilled into four main claims: that India maintains high tariff and non-tariff barriers; that it continues to buy large quantities of Russian defence equipment and oil; that the US conducts little business with India and suffers from a massive trade deficit; and that India's economy, along with Russia's, is "dead."

Not all of those claims hold up.

To begin with, India does impose steep import tariffs, a long-standing criticism at home and abroad for limiting competition in its domestic market. Accordi...