(MENAFN) White House Trade Adviser Peter Navarro has argued that the BRICS alliance is unlikely to endure, citing that its members have “long hated each other.”

During a Monday interview with Steve Bannon, a former strategist for US President Donald Trump, Navarro stated that none of the BRICS nations could sustain themselves without exporting goods to the United States.

”India has been at war with China for decades… and I just remembered, it was China that gave Pakistan the nuclear bomb,” Navarro remarked to Bannon.

“They have ships flying around the Indian Ocean with Chinese flags. [Indian Prime Minister Narendra] Modi, see how you kind of work that out.”

Navarro further asserted that China is allegedly sending illegal immigrants to Russia and has claimed territory within the country.

“China claims they own Vladivostok, the Russian port, and they are already through massive illegal immigration into Siberia, basically colonizing Siberia, which is the biggest landmass of the Russian semi-empire.”

However, China does not officially claim any Russian land, and both nations resolved their border disagreements by signing the Complementary Agreement on the Eastern Section of the China-Russia Boundary in 2004.

”I don’t see how [BRICS] stays together since historically they hate each other and kill each other,” Navarro concluded.

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