New Delhi, Jan. 20 -- Anthony Blinken, who is President-elect Joe Biden's nominee to be the secretary of state, has indicated that the United States would continue to back India against challenges to its sovereignty from China and work with it in the fight against terrorism.

Speaking at the confirmation hearings before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Tuesday, Blinken said that cooperation in defence equipment and information sharing that had deepened under former President Barack Obama had been carried forward by Trump's administration "including its concept of Indo-Pacific and to make sure we were working with India so that no country in the region including China could challenge its sovereignty and also working with it on con...