2026-05-23T03:02:22.188Z / reuters.com
- 概要
- 这位被称为“印度通”的美国特使曾致力于强化双边关系
- 特朗普政府启动新贸易调查之际，印度正权衡应对方案
- 卢比奥将与四方集团部长会晤，外界担忧此举或致“降级”
华盛顿5月22日路透电——美国国务卿卢比奥于周六抵达印度，旨在修复因唐纳德·特朗普总统的关税政策以及华盛顿加强与印度的对手巴基斯坦和中国接触而受损的伙伴关系。
美国国务院表示，此次为期四天的访问是卢比奥首次访印，行程将包括造访加尔各答、阿格拉、斋浦尔和新德里，重点讨论贸易、能源与防务合作。
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包括特朗普第一任期在内的多届美国总统长期以来一直致力于拉拢历史上奉行不结盟政策的印度，将其作为制衡俄罗斯以及中国在印太地区不断增强影响力的平衡力量。而去年特朗普对印度加征部分美国最高关税的举措，似乎给这些努力带来了打击。
其中多数关税已通过一项临时协定取消，但两国仍未敲定全面贸易协议。
新德里方面曾推动特朗普以出席包括美国、印度、日本和澳大利亚在内的四方集团峰会为由访印，但分析人士表示，受贸易紧张局势以及美以与伊朗冲突等分心事务影响，这一计划已被搁置。
与此同时，美国与印度的邻国兼对手巴基斯坦的关系日益密切，巴基斯坦在结束这场冲突的谈判中成为关键斡旋方，这一新情况成为美印关系的又一刺激因素。
美以对伊朗发动战争引发的能源危机，也阻碍了美国说服印度减少对俄罗斯石油依赖的努力。
卢比奥周四表示，能源将是此次访问的重点议题，美国已在就扩大其在印度能源供应中的份额进行谈判。
“我们希望尽可能多地向他们出售他们愿意购买的能源，”他说，“与印度还有很多工作要做。他们是伟大的盟友、绝佳的伙伴。我们与他们合作成果颇丰。”
现任亚洲集团咨询公司顾问、前国务院南亚政策专家巴桑特·桑赫拉表示，对印度而言，特朗普本月访华加剧了人们对美印关系的担忧。
桑赫拉称，特朗普的政策在印度国内“引发了对美关系的完美风暴式焦虑”，“但双边关系已趋于稳定，双方都在努力在存在共识的领域推动合作势头。”
极具影响力的特使
拜登政府曾将印度视为至关重要的战略伙伴并给予高度重视，并在2023年的国事访问中款待了印度总理纳伦德拉·莫迪。特朗普在第二任期初期也曾在白宫接待莫迪，但随后加征的高额关税使双边关系偏离正轨。
美国驻印度大使塞尔吉奥·戈尔被大西洋理事会智库专家迈克尔·库格曼称为“印度通”，他于今年1月抵达新德里，致力于重启双边关系。戈尔是特朗普的友人，此前曾担任白宫顾问。
今年2月，两国达成贸易“临时协定框架”，将特朗普对印度商品的关税从苛刻的50%降至18%，其中一半关税与印度此前购买俄罗斯石油有关。
但美国最高法院于2月底裁定特朗普的关税违宪后，敲定最终协议的谈判陷入停滞。
这一裁决实际上将印度商品的关税税率降至10%，但随着特朗普政府依据不公平贸易做法立法启动调查，外界普遍预计此举将恢复此前的大部分关税，印度正就此权衡应对方案。
一位熟悉谈判情况的人士表示，美国对印度被认为是拖延谈判，以及印度似乎认为可以在不做出太多让步的情况下达成一份有利协议感到失望，这种情绪很可能会给卢比奥稳定双边关系的努力蒙上阴影。
“我不认为卢比奥国务卿能对改变双边关系的下行趋势产生多大影响，”战略与国际研究中心智库的理查德·罗索表示。
“尚未达成贸易协议——距宣布‘临时协议’已三个多月——这给其他领域的接触蒙上了阴影。”
制衡中国的集团或将“降级”？
另一位熟悉谈判情况的人士透露，印度敦促白宫安排特朗普出席四方集团峰会的请求迄今未获回应。四方集团成立的初衷是制衡中国日益增强的影响力。
罗索表示，卢比奥下周将在新德里与其他四方集团外长举行会晤，这将是第三次没有最高层级领导人参与的此类会晤，实际上相当于该集团“未公开宣布的降级”。
尽管如此，美国驻新德里大使馆在X平台上的帖子仍强调了四方集团的重要性，称其“为自由开放的印太地区并肩合作……从支持区域安全到多元化关键矿产供应链。”
迈克尔·马蒂纳、戴维·布伦斯特伦、西蒙·刘易斯和特雷弗·汉尼库特 报道；戴维·劳德 补充报道；唐·杜菲和桑吉夫·米格拉尼 编辑
Rubio’s trip to India signals US need to repair ties
2026-05-23T03:02:22.188Z / reuters.com
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio disembarks his plane with his wife Jeanette at Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose International Airport in Kolkata, India, Saturday, May 23, 2026. Julia Demaree Nikhinson/Pool via REUTERS
- US envoy credited with strengthening ties as ‘India whisperer’
- India weighs options as Trump administration pursues new trade investigations
- Rubio to meet Quad ministers amid concerns about ‘downgrading’
WASHINGTON, May 22 (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio lands in India on Saturday on a mission to shore up a partnership battered by President Donald Trump’s tariffs and Washington’s renewed engagement with New Delhi’s rivals Pakistan and China.
The four-day trip, Rubio’s first visit to India, will include stops in Kolkata, Agra, Jaipur and New Delhi for talks focused on trade, energy and defense cooperation, the State Department said.
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U.S. presidents, including Trump in his first term, have long tried to pull historically non-aligned India closer as a counterweight to Russian and rising Chinese influence in the Indo-Pacific. Those efforts appeared to take a blow last year when Trump slapped some of the highest U.S. tariffs on India.
Many of those were rolled back in an interim agreement, but the two countries are yet to finalize a comprehensive agreement on trade.
New Delhi has pressed for a Trump visit to India tied to a summit of the Quad group of countries that includes the U.S., India, Japan and Australia, but analysts say that fell by the wayside amid trade tensions and distractions including of the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran.
The U.S. has meanwhile grown closer to India’s rival and neighbor Pakistan, with Islamabad emerging as a key interlocutor in efforts to end the war, a new irritant to the U.S.-India relationship.
The energy crisis sparked by the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran has also set back U.S. efforts to wean India off Russian oil.
Rubio said on Thursday energy would be a focus and the U.S. was already in talks to expand its share of India’s energy supply.
“We want to sell them as much energy as they’ll buy,” he said. “There’s a lot to work on with India. They’re a great ally, a great partner. We do a lot of good work with them.”
For India, Trump’s visit this month to Beijing amplified concerns about U.S. ties, said Basant Sanghera, a former State Department South Asia policy expert now with The Asia Group consultancy.
Sanghera said Trump’s approach had “created a perfect storm of anxiety” in India about the U.S. relationship, “but ties have stabilized and both sides are trying to build momentum in the areas that there is convergence.”
INFLUENTIAL AMBASSADOR
The Biden administration lavished attention on India as vital a strategic partner and feted Prime Minister Narendra Modi during a 2023 state visit. Trump also welcomed Modi to the White House early in his second term before imposing steep tariffs that threw ties off course.
U.S. Ambassador Sergio Gor, dubbed “the India whisperer”, by Michael Kugelman of the Atlantic Council think tank, arrived in New Delhi in January and has sought to reset ties. Gor is a friend of Trump’s and previously a White House adviser.
In February, the two countries reached a “framework for an interim agreement” on trade to lower Trump’s tariffs on Indian goods to 18% from a punishing 50%, half of which had been linked to India’s prior purchases of Russian oil.
But talks to finalize the deal slowed after the U.S. Supreme Court in late February struck down Trump’s tariffs.
That effectively brought the duty rate on Indian goods down to 10%, but New Delhi has been weighing its options as the Trump administration pursues investigations under unfair trade practices legislation widely expected to restore much of the prior levies.
One person familiar with the talks said the U.S. had been disappointed with India’s perceived foot-dragging and apparent belief that it could strike a good deal without giving much up, and this mood was likely to cloud Rubio’s efforts to stabilize ties.
“I do not expect Secretary Rubio will have much impact in changing the downward trajectory,” said Richard Rossow of the Center for Strategic and International Studies think tank.
“The lack of a trade agreement – more than three months after the announcement of the “interim deal” – clouds other areas of engagement.”
DOWNGRADE OF GROUP COUNTERING CHINA?
India’s entreaties for the White House to schedule a Trump visit for a summit of the Quad, which was formed as a counter to China’s growing influence, have so far gone unanswered, according to another person familiar with the talks.
Rubio’s meeting with other Quad foreign ministers in Delhi next week will be a third such gathering without a leader-level engagement and effectively an “unannounced downgrade” of the grouping, Rossow said.
In a post on X the U.S. Embassy in New Delhi nevertheless emphasized the importance of the Quad, saying it stood “together for a free and open Indo-Pacific… From supporting regional security to diversifying critical minerals supply chains.”
Reporting by Michael Martina, David Brunnstrom, Simon Lewis and Trevor Hunnicutt; Additional reporting by David Lawder; Editing by Don Durfee and Sanjeev Miglani