[shaggy eel]

,,, India has a large navy, cheap labour and will side with the West before it sides with China. The tiles are already down for it to go ahead. It needs time and US support.

[borghead]

Look at the nations surrounding india, China(an enemy), pakistan(chinese client state), myanmer(chinese client state), nepal(soon to be a chinese client state). Chinese naval bases on both sides of the indian ocean. Now in terms of land armies, china as far superior logistics and C3I frastructure than india. But the biggest obstacle to india's rise is its socialist economy. And India's democracy is simply preventing the economy from becoming capatilist and competitive, this is also why China's economy is 7 times larger than that of india when their populations are roughly the same.