Biden names China main adversary, but silent on India, Indo-Pacific (News Analysis)

By Arul Louis New York, Feb 5 : In his agenda-setting foreign policy speech, US President Joe Biden has made China the principal adversary of America, but failed to make any mention of the Indo-Pacific region or of India in confronting it.
The US will “take on directly the challenges posed” to “our prosperity, security, and democratic values by our most serious competitor, China”, Biden said in his speech at the State Department on Thursday.
Challenging Beijing, he declared: “We’ll confront China’s economic abuses; counter its aggressive, coercive action; to push back on China’s attack on human rights, intellectual property, and global governance.
“American leadership must meet this new moment of advancing authoritarianism, including the growing ambitions of China to rival the US.” The strong language was a turnaround from his globalist past as Senator and Vice President and his campaign statements like, “They’re not competition for us” and “China is going to eat our lunch? Come on, man”.
He did not layout a concrete plan in his speech to take on the China challenge, but spoke in generalities.