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NEW DELHI: India is not xenophobic, the country’s foreign minister has insisted, after comments by US President Joe Biden suggesting the South Asian nation and fellow ally Japan were struggling economically because they rejected immigrants.Biden, who is seeking reelection against Republican rival Donald Trump in November, made the remarks at a campaign fundraising event in Washington this week.Foreign minister S. Jaishankar told a media roundtable Friday that Biden’s comments did not match India’s reality.”First of all, our economy is not faltering,” he said, according to a report of the discussion published Saturday by the Economic Times newspaper.”India has been a very unique country,” he added. “I would say actually, in the history of the world, that it’s been a society which has been very open… different people of different societies come to India.”
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India not xenophobic, says Jaishankar after Biden remark
