Washington- US President Donald Trump has again claimed that he played a key role in defusing tensions between India and Pakistan by threatening to impose massive tariffs on both countries, saying the move“stopped the fighting” between the two nuclear-armed neighbours.

In an interview with Fox News on Wednesday, Trump said his“ability” to use trade and tariffs as diplomatic leverage helped bring“peace to the world” in multiple conflict zones.

Tariffs, he said,“give you a tremendous road to peace and the saving of millions of lives, just millions and millions of lives”.

The president said he made seven peace deals where countries, in many cases, were fighting for hundreds of years and“millions of people were being killed”.

“Not in all cases, but probably in at least five of the seven (peace deals) we've done, it was through trade. We're not going to deal with people that fight,” he said.

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