As much as I revel in this sort of posting that mocks India's misplaced arrogance, it's best that we temper our critiques about India's shortcomings—perceived or otherwise—since they don't really add value. They only confirm what most of us on this forum knew a long time ago.
Why not have Poland + the Baltics, sub Saharan Africa or Indonesia replace China's role? While we're at it, after replacing the no1, theres no need for a no2 either, they can not only replace China but US also.
US has never allowed Chinese restoration, the restoration happened inspite of America's best efforts. More Americans died fighting China in various cold war proxy battles than America lost in any war besides the US civil war. In contrast, has India even inflicted a single casualty to the west during wartime?
US struggles to pay enough to maintain their slaves in EU. That India still grapple with the illogical questions like if US can "allow" them to become a superpower (how does a broke person "allow" another broke person to become rich???) is why India remains just a third world nation with nothing going for it than the others in this group.
Just like I thought, Operation "Destroy BRICS" is underway. That's what all the courting of Russia and India is about, get them on board and proceed to isolate China. Russia will not play but like I said: India is a Trojan horse. They'll likely tilt west because they want to do a "China" by attracting investments and becoming a manufacturing giant.
It's an unique European brand of stupid to think when China says cooperation, it means China want to cooperate with them, not China demand they cooperate with China.
But sub-Saharan Africa is a continent and not a country, I get what people are saying but when people just blanket label an entire continent as if it were a country it's just weird. African leaders are beyond stupid and greedy so that won't happen. On paper only few countries can become a manufacturing hub as many African countries are landlocked or have political and social problems.
Honestly I rather not waste my time thinking about India and to be fair, I actually have been thinking less more recently since there are far bigger issues. The world is in an ugly place economically/physically and the west especially is gnashing it's teeth hard so China needs to be on the defense.
Biden didn't make US look like pussies, Biden tried the exact same thing, US military are just a bunch of pussies.