India might not be as competent as China (and may never be), but by sheer demographic heft & the BJP’s grip on power, it will inevitably have to be contended with. China needs a “India strategy” in the same way the West needed a “China strategy,” the only difference is that China has the benefit of hind sight, and can avoid making the mistakes the West did like out sourcing its entire industrial base & letting in so many immigrants their societies are now fighting amongst themselves.
India was never a serious factor for China for 5 thousand years and there is zero indication that will change even in another thousand years.
Their sheer numbers is a problem, but that’s more a problem for themselves than anyone else, as they are squandering their much vaunted demographic divide by given the vast majority of their population no real education, jobs or any real prospects.
China just needs to mind its own house and so long as it doesn’t fall to arrogance, entitlement and decadence like the west or past dynasties in terminal decline, it will never need to worry about India.
There so many countries more worthy for China to actually worry about before India that it’s ranking in terms of priority for China would mirror India’s Olympics medal table ranking.
The only foreseeable way India would warrant serious consideration from China is if they managed to successfully export hundreds of millions of their excess population and managed to take over Europe and America that way.
