The thing about Turkey and India is that they are middle powers that believes themselves to be something more. That makes them more belligerent to everyone, both US and China, but it also makes their national ego much more fractured.Strongest supporter for China in EU is not Hungary. It is objectively Greece. This is a fact, not an opinion. Polls and events prove this.
Polls show Hungarians hate Chinese. Events show that while Hungarians riot against Chinese giving them free money and education (lmao) Greeks are welcoming China and defying anyone who tells them to stop.
There is no reason to work towards those who are proven to be consistently and irredeemably hostile. Turkey is objectively one of the most hostile country to China in the world next to Japan and South Korea. This is again proven by polls and events. A fact, not an opinion. This has not been for lack of China trying to get Turkey to see things more agreeably. There are over 15 years of extreme hostility from Turkey.
Giving any concessions to Turkey risks alienating Greece, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Israel and basically every country that distrusts them for good reason. Any investment legitimizes their regime and gives them a lifeline. Investment is money given to them up front, after all. Any trade beyond civilian merchandise paid for up front is a risk from these hostile regimes.
You should not trust Turkey to behave in their own interest. You can trust them to behave in what they think is their interest. There's a huge difference. Turkish leaders think that high interest rates cause inflation. With this level of economics knowledge do you really think they even know what their interests are?
And their "lower interest rates will lower inflation" thing is not a 1 time mistake, it is part of their core economic ideology. They've been doing it for 3 years. Suffice to say, its not working.
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India behaves the same way. They do not behave in their own interest, they behave in what they think is their interest, which is different. Indian mismanagement has crashed their economy after demonetization.
India outright steals foreign investments which is why foreign companies are leaving India despite huge geopolitical pressure to invest there.
You can't trust the competence or self preservation instincts of Turkey and India.
They're not really enemies but cannot become allies either. However, they are *opportunities* that can be used. Perhaps right now, Turkey more so than India but you never know.
By steering clear of outright offending them (but of course responding to their territorial overreach with swift suppression, as China did against Turkish terrorism in Xinjiang), China can eventually align their oversized ambitions against America.
China's strength is that unlike US, it doesn't need a "new rules based order". It's government already directly rules as many people as US + EU together, only has slightly smaller economy than both together and has no need for colonial occupations, because friendly partner states provide all of China's resource needs.
That means that middle powers flexing their nationalism is not a threat to China, which has everything it needs at home, but it is a threat to America, which needs to retain it's status as the Fuhrer of the West and slavemaster of the third world.
As so, all flavors of national self determinism, eurosceptism, even Indian economic nationalism, should be stoked to a limited degree, because all these will step on Washington's toes, while China could care less about it.