They weren't the only ones not paying attention...

But he is scared to tears of them...

President Joe Biden had very little to say about China in his first 

State of the Union address on Tuesday night, and Chinese media returned the favor by saying very little about Biden’s speech.
China’s state-run Global Times counted only two mentions of China in the speech, neither of them terribly confrontational (Biden added a third in the remarks as delivered). The Chinese paper dismissed Biden’s address as a weak imitation of British Prime Minister Winston Churchill’s famed “Iron Curtain” speech that unsuccessfully sought to use Russia’s invasion of Ukraine to rally the divided American political parties behind Biden’s presidency.

Other Chinese commentators told the Global Times Biden’s failure to mention China was a sign he feared to “provoke” Beijing while his administration is overwhelmed by the Ukraine crisis.

“He probably forgets that it’s never a good bet when the U.S. bets against Chinese people, and the latest example was the trade war launched by his predecessor with a heavy price upon American customers and the U.S. economy, and sadly, he fails to correct these mistakes therefore his country and people will keep suffering,” taunted an unnamed Beijing-based “expert on international relations.”

Unlike Biden, the Global Times made sure to mention Afghanistan, arguing the president’s approval ratings began sinking last summer with that disaster and taking the tepid SOTU as a sign they would never recover.