Biden hails Modi’s COVID handling; Highlights India’s success & China’s failure

• U.S President Joe Biden applauds PM Modi at a closed door bilateral meeting in Tokyo. Biden pledged to make India-U.S partnership closest on Earth in his official statement. Minutes before the two leaders addressed the press, Biden gave an unscripted and candid compliment to Prime Minister Narendra Modi. As per reports, Biden said that PM Modi's handling of Covid in a democratic manner is commendable. He added India and China are of comparable size but they failed to tackle Covid. Biden further said that Modi has shown that democracies can deliver. PM Modi thanked Biden and even called the two nations ties as a 'a force for good'. Full detail of Modi-Biden meet in this report.