Washington DC, Nov. 15 -- US President Donald Trump has held telephone calls with Thailand and Cambodia and claimed he threatened the use of tariffs against the two neighbouring countries in South East Asia to "stop the war."

Trump spoke by phone with Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manet, Thai Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul, and the leader of Malaysia on Friday.

"I stopped the war just today through the use of tariffs - the threat of tariffs. If we didn't have that, other countries would use tariffs on us, and we would have no fair means of fighting," he told reporters aboard Air Force One as he travelled to Florida for the weekend, CNN reported.

"I spoke to the prime ministers of both countries and they're doing great. I think they'...