Indians are paranoid of entering any kind of strategic alliance with the US because they are too proud and dont want to become lackeys !!
My friend, there is a lot of difference between strategic partnership and becoming a lackey.
We welcome good military to military ties with you.
Which is all fine and dandy if it were not for the fact that almost every week Indian soldiers are being humiliated and forced to endure endless forays by Chinese troops into their territory. Indian diplomats run like frightened cats begging their Chinese counterparts to move back.
They have been begging the Chinese to stay on their side of the border for 30 years.
Not 30 years. 25 years.
For 5 years when a strong government was in power, there was NO incursions between 1999-2004.
Incursions started in the year 2008 when Chinese knew that we are having a weak, corrupt and sold-out regime supported by a bunch of self-ashamed, lost and slave minded 'intellectuals' who were nothing more than vermin purchased from public money bribes.
For two terms, 'liberal' Indians chose this regime and are suffering to this day.
Which is why things are changing for the good, by going bad initially.
If you cant deal with China on your own : then you should find an alliance with others who view China as a threat.
But Pragmatism is not a word in the Indian vocabulary.
India's seventy year old politicians let China build a 20 year lead in strategic weapons but they dont have the balls to align themselves with the US because they are incapable making hard decisions and too scared of the Chinese reaction.
Tell me something; What did you do when Philippines has to deal with boat rammings from PLAN every second day?
What did you do when your greatest partners aka the Japanese' territory of Senkaku islands is being daily visited by boatloads of Chinese troops and even civilians planting Chinese flags?
What did you do about the strategic partner South Korea when its island was being shelled, injuring citizens and when DPRK who is nothing more than China's pet dog, sank and killed 46 South Korean sailors?
Did you fire warning shots at the Chinese?
Did you down their jets patrolling the South China Sea?
Did you retaliate on behalf of Japanese, Koreans and Filipinos?
No.
All you have is military bases on their territories and nothing more.
Your usual response is a joint wargame which does nothing and I mean
nothing to deter either Chinese or their pet pooches.
They have managed to easily circumvented your posturing by continuing to poke these smaller countries while knowing that you won't dare to do anything to them.
Instead, of this, why don't you remove your secret nuclear threat to Japan which is still like a gun behind their backs and let them militarize?
Everytime they ask you to vacate the Okinawa base, you ratchet up the China threat and then press them into letting you stay.
And even then PLAN and PLAAF has a free run.
Because you know what?
They know you won't dare to do anything as long as a single American is not harmed.
Chinese don't care a rat's rear about the US soldiers now as they know you are only a ceremonial threat to them.
They won't touch your soldiers but will continue occupying and poking and harassing Japan, Korea, Philippines and even Vietnam.
Basically, you lot are a limitation to the Japanese from militarization.
At least you have to credit the Pakis - they quickly aligned with China when they realised that they couldnt handle India alone.
"Talk about being in a pickle" - I pity the Indian soldiers who man the border with China have to deal with the weekly aggression.
And that is the reason why they are in dumps today.
They are emotionally unstable and therefore easily take a stand without understanding the difference between excellent relations internationally and strategic partnership.
You used Pakistan to get rid of USSR.
And Russia is back up again, stronger than ever even if not a direct threat to you.
And look where Pakistan is:
1- Every major terrorist organization from Balkans to Java and Borneo is hiding there.
2- Your puppet Zia's indoctrination, the country cannot even tolerate each other.
3- Their economy is on the bring of collapse with multiple centres of power.
4- Rather than making them see sense of not waging a war with us and attacking us, you promoted them so badly, that they are now on the verge of eventual disintegration.
So looking at Pakistan, we did a really good job.
One more thing:
Our country's current weak stature is due to the type of regime you patronize: 'Free, secoolar and liberal' system that has made terrorists dominate our country today.
Once the elections come and the current opposition changes, you will see our change in stand against China.
Chinese know it all too well as they did between 1999-2004.