Certainly, and I'd add that respect will come naturally - first among the Chinese people, and then through the government - when India can deliver both clean democracy and real development to Indian citizens.
Playing a sort of 'spoiler' role in Asia, or surreptitiously joining in a soft containment of China, however, would make that process much more difficult.
Are you Chinese guys on this forum so bloody dense ????????
WHO IS CONTAINING WHO ??
FOR THE LAST 40 YEARS......the Chinaman has been arming and paying off the DUMBASS PAKIS to engage India in a state of non-declared proxy war. You have done everything you can possibly do short of declaring outright war, to keep India pinned down in a perpetual low intensity conflict with Pakistan. The dumbass Pakis were only too happy to oblige until now Jihadi maniacs are turning their guns on their own people and the Pak Army.
So who is containing who ?? Are you Chinese guys living in a world of altered reality......or are you just so goddamn thick that you can see past your official bullshit courtesy of the Global Times.
Do you even read what you are writing ?
Do you really believe for even one second that the special relationship between Pak and China is anything more than about containing India ?
Now you know why I call China the "superpower that is afraid of its own shadow".
If you guys feel that India needs to be contained so badly that you would ally yourself with a pariah state like Pak....then I rest my case !!