title: The United States in the Indo-Pacific
abstract: anti-China rhetoric Trump preferred on one hand and cleverly sugarcoated the mercantilist and the off-shore balancing intents Trump did not hide.This chapter will review the (in)significance of the IOR in the US strategy historically, the region's renewed treatment under the Trump and Biden administrations and implications of the crisis in Ukraine on the broad Indo-Pacific strategy. The Indian Ocean Region (IOR) in the US StrategyThe US global Cold War strategy had two main fronts, but the India