That would be because the Chinese are neither silly or sentimental, unlike us. We dream of an Asian century, an India-China century etc. We are even willing, as you have , to choose China, a country that has fought a war with us and has claims on parts of our country over the US with whom we have no such problem . The Chinese have no such sentimentality. They have no interest in allowing what they see as an usurper, India whom they certainly don’t consider to be an equal to share their limelight in what they believe is an Chinese century and only that.
We need to stop being woolly headed about this, China is not our friend and will do everything to put us “in our place”. Unless we want to acquiesce to playing second fiddle, we need to stop all this nonsense of hoping we can join forces with China. We can’t, because our national interests are diametrically opposite to theirs.
