WHEN they’ve got the imbalance in-their-favor enough, they will gut & smash India: that is their plan.
Modi’s relying on Russia, China’s economic-vassal-state, for protection against China, hands India to China, strategically.
Make-believe never saved any country’s life, nor will it, in the coming decade.
See it for what it is: now is only a “location in time”, during the slippery-slope ( low steepness, after 1 or 2 more world-process Punctuations, the slope will be STEEP! ) time before global-TANTRUM/POGROM that #ClimatePunctuation, combined with political-tantrum, including “populist” dictatorships, combined with religious-tantrum, combined with food-web collapse, combined with an increasing-fraction-of-humankind becoming refugee…
etc.
The Great Filter’s unfolding, but still in its Yin stage.
China doesn’t want to rock the boat yet.
When opportunity is ripe, however, they are going to.