We don't need anybody. They need us and our market.
"Need" may be too strong a word. Try "significantly more advantageous" instead.
India strongly on our side would have been a major plus in all the Middle Eastern fiascos we have gotten ourselves into. Instead, we have married ourselves to China, a nation obviously out to destroy our country, and quite probably indulge in the same world-conquest ideas that have motivated the Marxists forever.
Despite all its flirtations with socialism, India has remained democratic and largely capitalist.