China doesn’t need to and shouldn’t do anything to manoeuvre India because India is actually what the western MSM and political bobble heads accuse China of being and worse: a dangerously emotional and vain upstart power with grandiose ideas of their ‘rightful birthright’ based on religious mumble jumble and a totally whitewashed and largely imaginary history; a capricious, opportunistic and predatorily expansionist power who has unlimited territorial expansionist appetites and will pounce at the first sign of opportunity. The only thing holding them back from doing actual damage on the world stage is their own ineptitude and lack of capabilities.
Conflict between such an upstart power and the western established powers is inevitable. India has just been saved thus far by their own incompetence since they lack the hard power to be considered a credible threat by the west, as well as being shielded by the existence and success of China that has attracted all of the west’s attention and worries. It is ironic that if India had managed to attract the level of attention and ‘respect’ of the west like they so desperately crave, the west would have created a pretext to bomb them back to the Stone Age and shattered their nation into a mass of constantly warring states that they will never be able to amount to anything agin.
India has been the land of dreams and illusions since the Dawn of time, there is no reason or evidence to suggest they will be anything more in the foreseeable future.
Because of geography, China needs to always be wary and ready to defend against the inevitable attempts by India to stab it in the back while China’s attention is focused elsewhere and/or if India believes China to have been temporarily weakened somehow. But also due to geography and India’s own ineptitude, the best they can manage would be a needle poke, and the only place their limited reach can reach is China’s ample butt. Simply put, they were a mere annoyance, not a credible threat.
India don’t have the emotional patience/control of China to deal with the West. India is too hot headed. If India was at the receiving end of Western provocations that China has to deal with, India would already be at war with the West.
India’s brazen attack on China during COVID thinking it was an opportunity while China was distracted showed India’s true mentality.
Indian hegemonic and expansionist mindset is there for all to see. I wouldn’t be surprised in the future if rapprochement happened between the West and China due to India itself. It would be so ironic.