As an average Indian, I consider any chinese a fellow human who works to get his ends meet.i love Kung Fu, Shouin, and jackie chan & jet Li movies. But Geopolitically its another matter.
Those who control tibet control the waterS of India, Thailand etc. Karkoram pass gives China access to south asia,XInxiang access to the ancient silk road that connects Central asia and Middle east. India has control of sea lanes. Since, we cannot count on Russia to balance china militarily, politically and economically anymore, especially after USSR demise. We needed to go to Europe and USA for strategic partnerships.
I remember an article in 1994 that China was actally looking toward joining India in the LCA programme since it too wanted to replace mig-21 based fighters. but after Deng stepped down hardline attitude of Hu Jintao viewed india through the security lens, thus J-17 with pakistan, Missile technology whose pace accelerated. then we come to US-India relationship, only after which China took India seriously. As china plays hardball India draws closer to US, atleast if Chinese govt was indifferent to india's rise the "enemy" word won't rise, but frequent back-tracking, the nuclear deal spoil sport. Presently USA is one up with the UNSC permanent member support. actually it should have been to two up, but obama early on squandered away the benefits of nuclear deal of Bush administration by completely ignoring India early on while eagerly courting China e.g G-2.
Pakistan plays the China card too well against India, which gives Indian Warmongerers legitimacy to draw attention to their cause of "Two-front war". Plus there will always be battle for resorces.
China needs to give-up the idea of pakistan being its Israel, Israel has been nothing more than pain in the ass of US lately. And Pakistan bases terror groups have sleeper cells even with-in china. its time China stopped looking at India through the Lens of Pakistan in terms of security.