That being said, India is not going to pass on this opportunity to settle the border issue with China. The Chinese, for their part, are trying to neutralize a direct threat on their southern border, when the time comes for action on Taiwan. They will be satisfied if there is no direct military involvement of India in the upcoming conflict.
India has proved that when the rubber meets the road, the U.S. always takes care of its own interests, and India will be left to fend for itself. Pakistan is probably the worst nuclear proliferator. Additionally, however much they claim innocence, the taliban and its sister organization al qaida, were under pakistan's patronage. Yet the U.S. continues to prop up and support this rogue country. It should be part of the axis of evil.
IMHO, this is just India taking care of India.
Completely agree with you.
In that statement, substitute Russia (Stalin) for India, and Germany (Hitler) for China and you have just as unlikely (actually, at the time I believe it would have been considered even more unlikely) a statement. Yet it happened at the beginning of WWII as those two superpowers carved up Europe.
For sure India is taking care of India here. But China is emerging rapidly in terms of economic influence and military...if such a pact works and if it benefits the Indians, over time, they will naturally mopve further into that sphere of influence. That's all, and that would be disaterous for the US IMHO.