New Delhi, Feb. 22 -- The Biden-Modi consensus is seen as a repetition of the hitherto US ways to push back against China's growing assertiveness in the region

In the run up to the US Presidential elections of November, 2020, there were speculations about the evolving contours of US foreign policy. The Trump-haters put too much money on Biden and hoped that the new President will go for a transformational change in the US policy. Such change was supposed to apply to, inter alia, Washington's approach to Asia-Pacific (now renamed as Indo-Pacific), the Quad and China's dominance on the south China Sea.

Amidst all these uncertainties, the critics and commentators re-ran the narrative that in the US, the Presidents change not the US policy....