Pakistan, April 6 -- As the war in Iran, not excursion, enters its second month and President Donald Trump has delayed his much publicized trip to Beijing, has the Indo-Pacific region sunk with little trace in terms of American policy priorities?

The region is massive in terms of geography and population stretching some 8,000 miles from India's west coast to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, and numbering about 4.6 billion souls, almost three-fifths of the global population.

And the region is suffering far greater than the United States and West from the shortages of oil, natural gas and fertilizer, among other commodities.

Yet, the geostrategic, political and economic issues are not lessening in consequence or complication.

While some in the Uni...