I am pretty much convinced that only might dictates others behaviour towards you. This CCP or Chinese being respectful towards you is nothing but farce. Just like that Aman ki aasha thing with Pakistan. Real situation in both of this countries will be almost ambivalent towards India or ignorance. They will be focused more on Japan or US. And that's reasonable considering the fact we will also not care say, if a country like Bangladesh or Myanmar tells us we will defeat you. It's pure human behaviour. And even if you beat them, they will try to counter you.
The only way to go out of this cycle is to grow so strong that they can't even dream of doing that. Like the US. We have achieved something like that towards Pakistan.
It's not that we are wrong. It's the world that is wrong. We Indians are just fed up with stuff like 'India never conquered another country in 1000 years ' , 'India is peaceful' etc that made us idealistic and hopeful that the world is like that. Pretty sure, Nehru thought the same and China reached him a lesson on that. And for years we had fear towards China. Now we countered China and they are now looking at their options. Same with Pakistan after Bangladesh was born. Nepal and Bangladesh don't know what's it like to tangle with us.. Lol, Ignorance is bliss.
Even if CCP goes away, Taiwan still claims AP. Some things indeed never change.
The only good thing is instead of Indians fighting among themselves, we are fighting others now. And that's already a big improvement. Our ancestors will be proud of us.