How India and Pakistan Averted War

印度与巴基斯坦如何避免战争

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2025-05-14

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Last week, India and Pakistan saw the worst fighting in half a century — and came close to an all-out war. But the conflict came to an uneasy and sudden halt after Donald Trump declared the two countries reached a ceasefire.  On today’s Big Take Asia Podcast, Rebecca Choong Wilkins talks to Bloomberg’s Dan Strumpf about how the deadly clashes and ceasefire unfolded and the implications of US mediation in the decades-old conflict.   Read more: Trump Truce Leaves India Furious, Pakistan Elated as Risks LoomFurther listening: The Rise of Modi, Part 1: Why India’s Leader Is So Popular – and Polarizing The Rise of Modi, Part 2: How India’s Leader Came Back From the Brink See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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  • Tensions between India and Pakistan that threatened to boil over during the weekend have now settled back to a simmer.

  • The two countries have been striking at targets inside each other's borders since last Wednesday.

  • It's the worst fighting between these two nuclear powers in half a century.

  • But now they appear to have reached a fragile truce.

  • So what you saw with this conflict was really the closest that India and Pakistan have come to an all-out war

  • since possibly the 1970s.

  • Dan Strumpf is a Bloomberg senior reporter based in India's capital of New Delhi.

  • He says the hostilities are the latest phase of a longstanding territorial dispute over the border region of Jammu and Kashmir.

  • It's one of the most contested regions in the world, really.

  • Both India and Pakistan have claimed this region as their own,