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Republican front-runner Donald Trump beat rival Ted Cruz in Indiana on Tuesday, a win that brings him virtually to brink of becoming the party's presidential nominee. Keeping in mind that the prospect of him becoming the US president have improved immesurably, we take a look at what the controversial candidate has said about India, China, Pakistan, Japan and even close neighbour Mexico: (Image Source: Reuters)
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Donald Trump speech: “They are taking our jobs. China is taking our jobs. Japan is taking our jobs. India is taking our jobs. It is not going to happen anymore, folks!” (Image Source: Reuters)
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Donald Trump speech: (The billionaire said that he called up his credit card company to find out whether their customer support is based in the US or overseas.) "“You ever call up on your credit card, you want to find out about your credit card. Guess what, you're talking to a person from India. How the hell does that work? So I called up, under the guise I'm checking on my card, I said, 'Where are you from?'" (then he copied the response from the call center in a fake Indian accent), "'We are from India.'" "Oh great, that's wonderful," (he said as he pretended to hang up the phone). (Image Source: Reuters)
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Donald Trump speech: “I’m not angry at China. I’m not angry at Mexico. I’m not angry at India or Vietnam, which is hot as a pistol right now, taking a lot of stuff away from us. I am upset with our leaders for being so stupid." (Image Source: Reuters)
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Donald Trump speech: “I’m not angry at Japan. They send cars over by the million. We give them practically nothing. You talk about a trade unbalance. They’re up here. We’re down like below that stage. It’s trade imbalance. I’m not angry at any of them. I’m angry at our leaders for being grossly incompetent and not knowing. Right?.” (Image Source: Reuters)
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Donald Trump speech: “India is doing great. Nobody talks about it. We’ve gone from a tremendous power that is respected all over the world to somewhat of a laughing stock and all of a sudden, people are talking about China and India and other places. That was the beginning of China. That was the beginning of India.” (Image Source: Reuters)
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Donald Trump speech: Must make America great again. Will bring back jobs from countries like India, China, Japan and Mexico. What I did on June 16, we came out and we started talking about trade, how we’re being ripped off with China, ripped off with Japan, ripped off with Mexico at the border and then trade, ripped off by Vietnam, and by India, and by every country." (Image Source: Reuters)
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Donald Trump speech: "If elected, would get Pakistan to free Shakil Afridi in two minutes. I would tell them let (him) out and I'm sure they would let (him) out. Because we give a lot of aid to Pakistan." (Image Source: Reuters)
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Donald Trump speech: "You can't allow policies that allows China, Mexico, Japan, Vietnam, India. You can't allow policies that allows business to be ripped out of the United States like candy from a baby." (Image Source: Reuters)
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Donald Trump (in a memo) proposed to force Mexico to pay for a planned border wall by threatening to block remittances from illegal immigrants, which he said amounts to "welfare" for poor families in Mexico that their government does not provide. It's an easy decision for Mexico: make a one-time payment of $5-10 billion to ensure that $24 billion continues to flow into their country year after year," the memo reads. Trump has also accused Mexico of sending rapists and drug runners to the United States. (Image Source: AP)
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