US President Joe Biden has called Japan and India “xenophobic”, grouping them together with Russia and China as countries that “don’t want immigrants”.

Bidens criticism of Japan comes just weeks after he called the US-Japan alliance “unbreakable” during a state visit from Prime Minister Fumio Kishida.

He said that the US election this November is about “freedom, America and democracy”.

India is also a key US partner, despite US concerns about human rights and religious freedoms there.