Donald Trump has urged Nato members to stop buying Russian oil and gas and introduce tariffs on China. In return, the US will impose “major sanctions” on Moscow.

The US president said he believed that Nato sanctions on Russia , “plus Nato, as a group, placing 50% to 100% tariffs on China, to be fully withdrawn after the war with Russia and Ukraine is ended, will also be of great help in ending this deadly, but ridiculous war”.

Trump has already placed an additional 25% import tax on goods from India as punishment for it buying Russian energy products. But he has yet to impose further tariffs on China for doing the same despite it being the largest buyer of Russian oil products. Turkey, Hungary and Slovakia, all Nato members, also purchase Russian oil and gas.

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