President Biden known as Japan a “xenophobic” nation throughout a marketing campaign occasion Wednesday night, placing the U.S. ally in a bunch with authoritarian rivals akin to China and Russia and suggesting {that a} lack of immigration could also be why the nations had been “stalling so badly economically.”
The remarks, extensively reported Thursday within the Japanese press, got here lower than a month after Biden hosted Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida for a high-profile state go to to cement their alliance. The president additionally advised that India, one other nation that companions with the USA on safety measures, was petrified of foreigners in his remarks.
