United States President Donald Trump claimed that his threat to impose a 200% tariff on exports from one of the two South Asian nations was instrumental in stopping the India-Pakistan war. He alleged that he was in contact with both of them about trade.

“We stopped a lot of these wars using trade. As an example, India and Pakistan were going at it really hard. Seven planes were shut down...Bad things were happening and I was talking to both of them about trade...I said we are not going to do a trade deal unless they stop the war,” Trump said, as per ANI .

Trump lauded Prime Minister Narendra Modi as a “great man” and said they have a “great relationship". Both spoke last week to assess trade talks and PM Modi said “good progress” was made in negotiations.

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