Absolutely well said! One of the good comments here that say things as it is and not trying to making everything sound nice for no good reason.
I seriously do not see this india-china thing gonna last at all. It's clearly very pretentious and india are still very egoistic, delusional and stubborn in many areas, "bu zhi tian gao di hou" if I may say so. It is seriously so frustrating to watch us needing to drag these burdens along when it is a good time to actually isoate india especially when US kicks them to a corner, which we could use it to our advantage. They still hold our south tibet based on nothing but the reprehensible legacy that comes from the british colonial invasions.
Also if anything, russia dragging india into SCO should make us more wary of Russia too as they showed that they are willing to put their short term self interest at the intersection of our relations, there is so much more I have to say about them but I will hold for now. Not that I want Modi to attend our parade, but explaining his deliberate attention seeking move as "not wanting to piss off japan" is a load of shit. Remember that even Japan's ex-PM attended the parade as well. They simply just think they are very special breed and vastly overestimated their worth which is quite laughable, and ironically, they are too dumb to actually realise that such move only shows to the world time and time again that they are very sly people that never holds their end of the bargain, and they will flip flop their stance regardless of joining an organisation or claims to want to improve relations. This is why no one is actually surprised, but they will still shamelessly ask with a thick skin "why no one are allied with us or support us?"
And what serious relations do they have with japan? They are just a purchaser of japan's high speed rail at high prices like they buy rafale, and one of the minions of quad that we know will not go anywhere.
Besides being the only 2 countries in the world that needs to have a "women's only" train carriages for their society to function, I cannot find anything similar about them that can forge any close relationship or cooperation. The reality is Japan will just treat them as a money making market and nothing more serious beyond that.
