This is about India-China not US-China. China has ingressed into our border, fights us at UN, NSG and funds Pak. We shouldn’t balance but fight it. If we co-opt US for it it is because we need them on our side. It will be on our terms largely.
https://twitter.com/happymonjacob/status/1314144344194998272
This whole “we shouldn’t get entangled in the war between two superpowers” thing is exactly the sort of irrelevant Non Alignment nonsense that essentially states to do nothing and allowed to be bullied around.
We are fighting for our territorial integrity, for our influence in the Indian Ocean Region and for our place in the world. That you think that is itself a move egged by US is the sort of colonialist mindset when you fashion yourself as the brown babu to the white man!
The US may drop off the world policing role, but our people have aspirations. Of a $10 Trillion economy by 2030s of ability to trade and do business with and in the IOR freely and of not being pushed around by CCP’s policies. Of securing our interests across the region.
That people in our strategic thinking still think we shouldn’t confront the CCP lest we may offend it, well the CCP made its choices. To burn trade bridges, to not allow the only actual peaceful and democratic rise of a middle power and to support terrorism in the region.
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