Let me hear your plan if Iran-Pakistan-China-Russia makes an alliance (which will be guaranteed to happen in future)
If that happens, the "Asian NATO" will ensure India has F-35, THAAD, and other cutting-edge US hardware. I'm all for it.
Don't look at this as just a military alliance. It transcends warfare. There will be free flow of IP and capital. India will benefit the way European states have, under the Marshall Plan.
The west now realizes that it was stupid to continue feeding China after the Cold War without a viable counterbalance in Asia. During the final two decades of the Cold War, the West sought to pincer the Soviet Union from the west by NATO, and to the east by China. It now knows that it will be increasingly difficult for US allies (groups of mid-size nations like South Korea, Japan, Taiwan, etc.,) to counterbalance China. So if we demonstrate our ability to stand up to China, the west will start "feeding" us (think big ticket industrial investments).
Chinese 5th gen warfare strategy will be to convince western policymakers through the western academia, intelligencia, and press "don't create another China." However, I predict China will have limited success in this. Asia has become so lopsided that the west needs a monolithic counterbalance to China that won't dial 911 every time it's picked on, because a US-led alliance of smaller states like SoKo, Japan, Vietnam, etc., are easy for China to push aside. If China decides to pick on someone like Vietnam, there's no way that Japan and SoKo will join a military effort. The US will have to police Asia with 50 warships, spending billions of dollars a week. On the other hand, a monolithic counterbalance to China like India will stunt China's access to the middle-east, South Asia, and IOR. That's pretty much half the battle against China won for the west.
