thakur_ritesh
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i whole heartedly agree with what you say. my sense is china over played it self way too much and way too early, if they had to do all that they did in the last 1-2 years time period the perfect timing for that would have been by the fag end of this decade, it seems china is a decade too early into this but then they might be uneasy with india growing the way it is and if india was to continue like this for say another decade, india could turn out to be quite formidable and so the rush.Last year is a disaster for China's foreign policy. If there is a check and balance, the person responsible for it should be fired off his post.
However, it's inevitable US will try to contain China, sooner or later. As only super power in the world, the world should be lead by American way in their eyes. Any challenges to their world dominance would be considered as threat, and thus, should be contained and prevented, regardless what type of country such challenge come from. India will face same situation once you grow big enough and not follow American way of world rules.
Regarding China's foreign policy, government (or military maybe?) miscalculated the situation, got over confident and bluntly spread some "core interest" theory that unnecessarily strained our relationship with some neighbors. But objectively speaking, when a country as big as China getting even powerful, her neighbors are in a forever mode of nervousness unless China can convince them her rise is peaceful and non-harmful.
As for India, being considered as a chess piece of America is nothing to be proud of. India is a proud country and right now is in a perfect diplomatic situation like China enjoyed 30 years ago. It would be in India's best interest not join any alliance or at least not openly support such ideal. We all know how fragile such alliance is and how unreliable our super power friend it is. US policy toward China could be hostile for now but both countries will still pretend to be friendly because they badly need each other. Other countries don't have such luxury. It would be naive and tragedy for a country to openly against China, expect reward from US, and later on find themselves left alone. US always did such thing. Vietnam and even Japan recognize it, not to mention Korea, Indonesia and Philippine. Vietnamese leader has secretly visited China several times to assure Chinese leader their true intention. Japanese prime minister has expressed his dire need to improve mutual relationship and vowed he want to visit China as soon as possible.
Just like that article says, Unlike US has huge trade deficit with China, most Chinese neighbors are benefiting from China. You could lose a lot more before you gain any, after all, US is thousands miles away.
also i suspect india doesnt want to align with the US and antagonize the prc, my sense is india would want to over hype china, which is perfectly understandable and if done would be a perfectly well thought out strategy, since if we are successful we will end up with a lot of concessions and benefits which otherwise could take a lot of time. now if this gets perceived as india being played around to US's benefit, i wouldnt mind since india would be in complete control, getting what it wants and still keeping complete independence no matter how the country gets perceived.