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United States President Donald Trump has once again asserted that he prevented a potential “nuclear war" between India and Pakistan earlier this year. Speaking in an interview with CBS News on Sunday, Trump said his use of trade and tariff threats helped defuse the escalating military confrontation between the two South Asian neighbours.

Trump says tariffs helped stop India-Pakistan conflict

Trump claimed that in May, India and Pakistan were on the brink of a major military conflict, which he managed to stop using economic pressure. “Out of all the wars that I have stopped, I used tariffs to stop 60 per cent of them," Trump said. “But it did work with India, and it did work with Pakistan… If it wasn’t for tariffs and trade, I wouldn’t have been able to make the d

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