US elections 2020: Not how you talk about friends says Biden on Trump’s filthy air jibe
Washington, Oct 25: Slamming President Donald Trump for his comment on India's air pollution, former vice president and Democratic Party's presidential nominee Joe Biden on Saturday said he and his running mate Kamala Harris deeply value America's partnership with India.
"President Trump called India 'filthy'. It's not how you talk about friends and it's not how you solve global challenges like climate change," Biden said in a tweet, two days after Trump during a presidential debate accused China, India and Russia of not taking care of their "filthy" air.
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"Look
at
China,
how
filthy
it
is.
Look
at
Russia.
Look
at
India.
The
air
is
filthy,"
Trump
had
said
during
the
final
presidential
debate
with
Biden
in
Nashville,
Tennessee
on
Thursday.
"Kamala
Harris
and
I
deeply
value
our
partnership
and
will
put
respect
back
at
the
centre
of
our
foreign
policy,"
Biden
said
in
a
tweet
Saturday
as
he
retweeted
his
op-ed
in
the
latest
issue
of
ethnic
India
West
weekly.
"The Obama-Biden years were some of the best we've ever had between our two countries. A Biden-Harris administration will build on that great progress and do even more. We can and should be natural allies," Biden wrote in the op-ed.
"That's why if elected President, I will continue what I have long called for: The US and India will stand together against terrorism in all its forms and work together to promote a region of peace and stability where neither China nor any other country threatens its neighbours," he said.
"We'll open markets and grow the middle class in both the United States and India, and confront other international challenges together, like climate change, global health, transnational terrorism and nuclear proliferation," said Biden.