As I said: “ uncontrolled media makes it more attractive for the politically opportunistic in the Indian ruling class to appeal to the rash, loud, easily excitable, here thinking and emotionally impulsive elements that is present in any society, and allow such appeal to drive action and policy beyond what might be considered prudent boundaries”.
Indian political culture is certainly more vocal than those of the Chinese. That doesn’t mean the proportion that breath unseemly xenophobia to offset any gnawing sense of insecurity really is appreciably different compared to when China had cause to feel same sense of insecurity.
Yes and that "uncontrolled" (questionable) media frenzy should be pointed out shouldn't it? It comes from somewhere and it has certain desires? It goes towards my point does it not?
Yes it's more vocal than those of China partly because east Asian culture I believe treats these things differently and people who don't know much aren't quite as ready to be
that vocal. Your second sentence I think is pretty worthless for the topic which is India has cultivated a greater sense of unity against China than China has against India. It doesn't matter whether or not China is capable of doing that because it may or may not be and then what?
The question is, is India generally quite a lot more hostile in attitude towards China in its common folks and the general attitudes. Not is China also capable of cultivating hostility. For most fair observers, they know it is the case.
Relating this back to the actual thread and the topic of India joining China in space, well the Indian population (the great majority of it) would not like that because they would not like to see India cooperating with China on anything important. Many of them also consider China below India lol. Some think China will just want to work against India. Whatever the reasons, because there is great hostility against China in India (I mean they beat up "chinki" looking Indians for god's sake), it would be impossible for such a thing to go ahead in the next few decades at least. China wouldn't want them either because they offer nothing in tech. In fact they would offer absolutely nothing except maybe funding... of which they severely lack. If anything it's a net negative because of potential leak of information India may share with Quad/five eyes.
It's certainly not China's fault if India feels insecure about anything. Chinese people do not exhibit ANYWHERE near that animosity with American people despite the state of the US genuinely going further to make China feel insecure... You know threatening nuclear attack on China in the past, constantly undermining them, constantly sailing carriers around within 100km of China, constantly attacking it with information war, trade war etc, constantly working against it on every platform in every forum, unifying allies against China, building bases around China, using mouthpieces to directly threaten China. And yet no Chinese person calls for the rape of American women or violent treatment of Americans. No Chinese person bans Americans from their businesses or burns effigies of Trump or Biden. They don't curse it non-stop with so much frenzy. The worst China has behaved in this regard was against Japan and even then, it was open social PR to try and stop people from buying Japanese products. With this, India has done it, Korea too and the US in the past. No Japanese person was harmed and most younger Chinese are actually fairly positive on Japan overall. None of this can be said for India.
