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Trump predicts trade deals with India and Pakistan
Trump spoke optimistically about the potential for trade agreements with the two countries.
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Reuters - Fri, 20, Jun 2025
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Donald Trump. / Reuters
President Donald Trump predicted on June 20 that the United States will be able to negotiate trade deals with both India and Pakistan.
Speaking to reporters as he arrived in New Jersey, Trump spoke optimistically about the potential for trade agreements with the two countries.
U.S. President Donald Trump insisted on June 18 that he had stopped the war between India and Pakistan, hours after Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi told him the ceasefire after a four-day conflict in May was achieved through talks between the neighbors' militaries, not U.S. mediation.
Trump made his remarks just before he was scheduled to host Pakistan's powerful armed forces chief Asim Munir in a rare meeting at the White House on June 18, something likely to upset India, a country the U.S. president and his predecessor Joe Biden assiduously courted as part of efforts to push back against China.
White House spokeswoman Anna Kelly said Trump would host Munir after he called for the president to be nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize for preventing a nuclear war between India and Pakistan.
Asked what he wanted to achieve from the lunch meeting, which will follow a call he held with Modi on June 17 evening, Trump told reporters at the White House: "Well, I stopped a war ... I love Pakistan. I think Modi is a fantastic man. I spoke to him last night. We're going to make a trade deal with Modi of India.
"But I stopped the war between Pakistan and India. This man was extremely influential in stopping it from the Pakistan side. Modi from the India side and others. They were going at it - and they're both nuclear countries. I got it stopped."
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