Source: The American Bazaar    Published: 2025-04-10

By The American Bazaar

Columbia University professor and economist Jeffrey Sachs was all praise for the Indian Supreme Court while speaking at the Rising Bharat Summit 2025. 

“If we had the Indian Supreme Court, I would not have worried frankly. The Indian Supreme Court is pretty activist—it would strike this down as an enormous presidential overreach. I don’t know about our Supreme Court,” Sachs said.

Sachs went on to say that it is unknown as of now if the United States is a one-person rule or a democracy with checks and balances. He added that maybe the U.S. would have a coup now as Trump was elected to rule as per the constitution and not by decree.

Speaking about foreign policy, the economist had this to say, “American friendships have ended up destroying countries. India should be careful, there is no alliance. India is too big for alliance. Being the most populous country, India needs to take care of its relations.”

Sachs also reportedly said that the U.S. wanted to use India to beat up China. He advised not to play the American game as U.S. foreign policy is divide and rule for every country in the world. He added that India is too big for the U.S. game and that America wants India to bash China, to be part of QUAD. The QUAD is a grouping of Australia, India, Japan, and the United States that is maintained by talks between member countries.