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India Today
2 days ago
- Politics
- India Today
We did that through trade: Trump again claims he averted India-Pak conflict
US President Donald Trump has once again said that he played a key role in stopping conflict between India and Pakistan. During a meeting with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte on Monday (local time), Trump claimed that things were getting dangerous between the two countries after the Pahalgam terror attack, but his actions helped avoid a nuclear conflict."We have been very successful in settling wars, India, Pakistan... India, by the way, Pakistan would have been a nuclear war within another week, the way that was going. It was going very badly," Trump said that he used trade talks as a bargaining tool: "We did that through trade. I said, we are not going to talk to you about trade, unless you get this thing settled, and they did."VIDEO | US President Donald Trump (@POTUS) on India and Pakistan military conflict says, "We've been very successful in settling wars. You have India and Pakistan. You have Rwanda and the Congo, that was going on for 30 years. India, by the way, Pakistan would have been a nuclear Press Trust of India (@PTI_News) July 14, 2025 He had made a similar claim in June while talking to reporters on Air Force One."You know, I did something that people don't talk about, and I don't talk about very much, but we solved a big problem, a nuclear problem potentially with India and with Pakistan," he said."I spoke to Pakistan, I spoke to India, they have really great leaders, but they were going at it, and they could have gone at it nuclear," Trump has often taken credit for helping calm tensions between the two countries, especially after India carried out air strikes on terror camps in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) following the attack in Pahalgam that killed 26 REJECTS TRUMP'S CLAIMSIndia has firmly denied President Trump's claims, saying that all matters related to Jammu and Kashmir must be handled bilaterally between India and Pakistan, with no foreign a statement, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) said, "As you are aware, we have a long-standing national position that any issues pertaining to the Union territory of Jammu and Kashmir have to be addressed by India and Pakistan bilaterally. That stated policy has not changed."The MEA also reminded that the main issue remains Pakistan's occupation of Indian territory: "The outstanding matter is the vacation of illegally occupied Indian Territory by Pakistan."The Indian government also rejected Trump's claim that trade was used to settle the conflict. Officials clarified that during the time of 'Operation Sindoor', no discussion about trade took place between Indian and US the time OPERATION SINDOOR commenced on 7th May till the understanding on cessation of firing and military action on 10th May, there were conversations between Indian and US leaders on the evolving military situation. The issue of trade did not come up in any of these discussions," the MEA launched Operation Sindoor on May 7, targeting terrorist infrastructure inside Pakistan and PoK in response to the Pahalgam terror attack. After defending itself from Pakistan's military action, India cripple Pakistan's between India and Pakistan ended after a call from Pakistan's Director General of Military Operations (DGMO) to his Indian counterpart, leading to an agreement to stop further military action.- EndsWith inputs from ANIMust Watch
Arab News
31-03-2025
- Business
- Arab News
Trump says confident of TikTok deal before deadline
WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump said Sunday he was confident of reaching a deal on TikTok ahead of the April 5 deadline for its Chinese owner ByteDance to sell the popular short video app or see it banned in the United States.'We have a lot of potential buyers. There's tremendous interest in TikTok,' Trump told reporters onboard Air Force One.'We have a lot of people that want to buy TikTok. We're dealing with China also on it, because they may have something to do with it,' he said, adding 'I'd like to see TikTok remain alive.'China on Thursday had rebuffed a suggestion from Trump that he might offer to reduce tariffs to get Beijing's approval for the sale of TikTok to a non-Chinese said this month the United States was in talks with four groups interested in acquiring the platform, which has 170 million American users.A US law has ordered TikTok to divest from ByteDance or be banned in the United States, enacted over concerns that Beijing could exploit the app to spy on Americans or covertly influence US public law took effect on January 19, a day before Trump's inauguration, but he quickly announced a delay that has allowed it to continue to delay is set to expire on April 5.'There'll be a deal with TikTok, I'm pretty certain,' Trump said when asked if he would extend the deadline if there was no attempted to ban TikTok in the United States because of national security concerns during his first stint in the White House but has warmed up to it.'Selfishly speaking, I won the young vote by 36 points. Republicans generally don't do very well with the young crowd, and I think a lot of it could have been TikTok,' he said.
BBC News
31-03-2025
- Business
- BBC News
New tariffs this week will hit all countries, Trump says
President Donald Trump says new tariffs he is set to announce this week will hit all countries, not just those that have the biggest trade imbalances with the comments come as he prepares to unveil a massive slate of import taxes on Wednesday, in what he has called America's "Liberation Day".The measures will come on top of tariffs already imposed by Washington on aluminium, steel and vehicles, along with increased levies on all goods from markets in Asia fell in early trade on Monday as investors fret over the impact of the tariffs on the global economy. "You'd start with all countries," Trump told reporters on Air Force One."Essentially all of the countries that we're talking about."The president's latest comments came despite last week suggesting he might scale back his tariff plans and impose tariffs in some cases at lower rates than countries charge the House economics adviser Kevin Hassett also recently told the Fox Business channel that the tariffs would focus on 10 to 15 countries that have the worst trade deficits with the US, but did not name sees tariffs as a way of protecting the US economy from unfair competition and as a bargaining chip for getting better trading terms for the weekend Trump's advisers echoed his view that the planned tariffs could raise trillions of dollars and help create jobs in the top trade adviser, Pete Navarro, pointed to huge revenues he said the tariffs would raise. The tax on all car imports could raise $100bn (£77.3bn) on a trade worth $240bn, Mr Navarro said. All the planned tariffs could raise $600bn, about a fifth of the value of total goods imports into the US, he added.A White House fact sheet published last week suggested a 10% tariff on every import could create nearly 3 million US concerns about a trade war are unsettling markets and creating fears of a recession in the Monday morning in Asia, Japan's Nikkei 225 benchmark was more than 3% lower, the the ASX 200 in Australia was down by 1.6%, and South Korea's Kospi was around 2% of this raises the stakes for all the countries attempting to strike deals with the US over its trade policies, including the other jurisdictions, such as the EU and Canada, have already said that they are preparing a range of retaliatory trade Trump said a deal with TikTok's Chinese owner ByteDance to sell the app would be agreed before a deadline on set the 5 April deadline in January for short video platform to find a non-Chinese buyer or face a ban in the US on national security had been due to take effect that month to comply with a law passed under the Biden administration.
BBC News
26-01-2025
- Politics
- BBC News
Gaza war: Trump wants Egypt and Jordan to take in Palestinians
US President Donald Trump has said he wants Egypt and Jordan to take in Palestinians from Gaza, which he described as a "demolition site".In a phone call this weekend, Mr Trump said he had told Jordan's King Abdullah: "I'd love you to take on more, because I'm looking at the whole Gaza Strip right now and it's a mess, it's a real mess." He said he planned to make a similar request to Egypt's president on move "could be temporary" or "could be long-term", he has vowed to oppose any such action, and the comments will likely outrage Palestinians in Gaza, who see the territory as their ancestral home. "Our Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip endured death and destruction for 15 months… without leaving their land. Therefore, they will not accept any offers or solutions, even if they appear to be good intentions under the title of reconstruction, as announced by US President Trump's proposals," Bassem Naim, a member of the Hamas political bureau, told the BBC."Our people, just as they have thwarted all plans for displacement and an alternative homeland over the decades, will also thwart such projects," he of Gaza's two million residents have been displaced in the 15 months of war with Israel, which has flattened much of Gaza's infrastructure. The United Nations has previously estimated that 60% of structures across Gaza have been damaged or destroyed, and it could take decades to Verify: How 15 months of war have devastated GazaHistory of the conflict between Israel and the PalestiniansMr Trump made his comments while speaking to reporters on board the Air Force One."You're talking about probably a million and a half people, and we just clean out that whole thing," he said."Almost everything is demolished and people are dying there. So I'd rather get involved with some of the Arab nations and build housing at a different location where maybe they can live in peace for a change."Mr Trump did not give further details of the proposal, and the subject was not referenced in the White House's official read out of the call. Asked about Mr Trump's comments, Abu Yahya Rashid, a man displaced in the southern city of Khan Younis said:"We are the ones who decide our fate and what we want. This land is ours and the property of our ancestors throughout history. We will not leave it except as corpses."Decades of US foreign policy has committed to the creation of a Palestinian state, with Gaza as a key part. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rejects US has previously said that it opposes any forcible displacement of Palestinians from Gaza or the occupied West Bank, with then Secretary of State Antony Blinken saying last year: "They cannot, they must not, be pressed to leave Gaza."More than two million Palestinian refugees, most of whom have been granted citizenship, live in Jordan, according to the United Nations. They are descendants of some of the approximately 750,000 Palestinians who fled or were forced from their homes in the conflicts surrounding the formation of of Palestinians have fled to Egypt since the war with Israel began, but they are not recognised there as October 2023, Egypt's President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi said he rejected any forced displacement of Palestinians into the Sinai peninsula, and that the only solution was an independent state for Palestinians. Some on Israel's far-right want to return to Gaza and establish settlements there. Israel ordered a unilateral pull out in 2005, with 21 settlements dismantled and about 9,000 settlers evacuated by the far-right former national security minister Itamar Ben-Gvir said he commended Mr Trump "for the initiative to transfer residents from Gaza to Jordan and Egypt.""One of our demands from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is to promote voluntary emigration," he wrote on Trump's comments came as displaced people were delayed from returning to their homes in northern Gaza after Israel accused Hamas of breaching the terms of a ceasefire deal."There is nothing there - there is no life, everything is demolished. But still to return to your land, to your home is a big joy," one man anxiously waiting told the separate comments on Air Force One, Mr Trump said he had ended former President Joe Biden's hold on the supply of 2,000-pound bombs to Israel."They paid for them and they've been waiting for them for a long time," he told reporters on Air Force US is by far the biggest supplier of arms to Israel, having helped it build one of the most technologically sophisticated militaries in the the war in Gaza led to renewed calls for the US to reduce or end arms shipments to Israel, because of the level of destruction caused by US weapons in the territory.
