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JOE BIDEN FACES CRITICISM FOR SAYING ALLIES INDIA, JAPAN ARE ‘XENOPHOBIC’ AND
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US President Joe Biden is facing a backlash in some quarters for characterising
India and Japan as “xenophobic” for “not wanting immigrants”, with warnings
about a potential diplomatic blunder given Washington’s strengthened ties with
the Asian powers to counter China.

Biden’s remarks, which were made on Wednesday night at a campaign fundraising
event in Washington where the audience was largely Asian-American, came just
weeks after hosting Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida for a state visit at
the White House.



Biden said that “one of the reasons why our economy is growing is because of you
and many others. Why? Because we welcome immigrants”.

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Lumping both adversaries and allies together, he added that the reason why
China, Japan, India and Russia were facing economic headwinds was because
“they’re xenophobic”.

“They don’t want immigrants,” he said.



The Japanese and Indian embassies in Washington did not immediately respond to a
request for comment, and neither country has issued a formal response.

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His remarks were the lead item on Indian news programmes, with prominent
journalists responding critically.

“His advisers better get a grip on the president’s loose-cannon statements. If
not, one of these days it could trigger a diplomatic storm,” Indian journalist
Palki Sharma said in a prime-time broadcast, quoting the country’s promising
economic growth figures. India, the world’s fastest-growing big country, is
expanding at an annual rate of 6 to 7 per cent.

According to latest available data, there were nearly 4.9 million foreign-born
residents in India – a country of 1.4 billion – as of 2020, making it the 14th
top destination country globally.

Tokyo’s Japantimes news publication also reported on Biden’s comments, saying
that Japan was “gradually opening the door to more immigrants” as a result of an
ageing and shrinking population.

In December 2023, the number of foreign residents in Japan reached a record high
of 3.4 million, marking a 10 per cent increase from the previous year and
representing approximately 2.7 per cent of the total population of about 124
million.


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Some American defence and foreign policy analysts were also critical of Biden’s
comments.

“Japan and India are two of our very stoutest and important allies. We should
speak of them with respect, which they command and deserve,” said Elbridge
Colby, a Pentagon official during president Donald Trump’s administration, said
on X, formerly Twitter.

Ezra Cohen, an adjunct fellow at Hudson Institute, a conservative think tank in
Washington, said: “Insulting the two allies that are key to accomplishing the
aims of your Asia ‘strategy’ sure seems like a good way to improve American
security.”

According to Bill Drexel, an Indo-Pacific expert at the Centre for a New
American Security, a non-partisan think tank in Washington, the remarks were
“unnecessary and counterproductive”.



Cleo Paskal, a non-resident senior fellow at the Foundation for Defence of
Democracies, a think tank in Washington, said she thought Biden’s comments were
unlikely to have a major effect on the “complex, interwoven and wide-ranging”
relationships, but she added that it may “affect the way President Biden himself
is viewed”.

White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said on Thursday that Biden’s
point was “when it comes to who we are as a nation, we are a nation of
immigrants, that is in our DNA”, describing the remarks as “a “broad comment”.

John Kirby, the national security spokesman at the White House, said Biden was
not trying to insult other countries, and stressed that officials in India and
Japan were no doubt aware that there wasn’t any ill intent.

Both Tokyo and New Delhi are key partners of Washington in the Indo-Pacific
region and are members of the Quad, an informal security bloc led by the US that
aims to address Beijing’s influence in this strategically vital area.

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