India, April 14 -- The US will do nothing militarily unless China uses force. The red line's inviolability can be known only when China takes military action. The US has been taking all necessary measures to deter China from doing that.

There is an apparent competition between President Joe Biden and his predecessor Donald Trump to appear tougher in handling China's rise as a strategic challenger and assertive actor in the Indo-Pacific. It was Donald Trump who took the first step to prevent China from taking undue advantage of the American market to sell Chinese goods and shop American materials and unleashed a tariff war. China retaliated. Joe Biden did not embark on an economic detente to end the tariff war and continued the high tarif...