As time gos on and as this real life relationship continues to progress (see the recent article India and China Agree to form Partnership), the actual potential for downside to US economics and foreign policy multiply.
Yeah, I can see how India would want to be bosom buddies with the country that gave Pakistan nukes.
Chindia?
Incha?
Chained ! hell thats sounds about right !
This is so dang stupid...what is India and China unite. Heck, the bigger problem for all of us immediately is what is US and China unite!
This is an almost laughable assumption. China has absolutely no fear of India. Any visit by to India by a PLA Chief of Staff is for sightseeing. China's agressive plans for military expansionism is focused exclusively to the south and to the north.
This is why I don't take Joseph Farah seriously as a geopolitical analyst.
The Indian government that cut such a deal would be dead inside of a week, and the military would be running the country.
This should be a cause for concern for both India and the US. Despite all the rhetoric on "strategic partnership" and "natural allies". We dont seem to be moving forward. We are always stuck where we are when it comes to Indo-US relations. And the fact remains (as always)....China thrives on US weakness or folly (as we see in this case China attempting to drag India out of the American camp).
To begin with, India and China can never be allies (unless the US goes overtly anti-India as it did under Nixon). Secondly Pakistan and China are long-term "all weather" allies. Pakistan wont mind milking the US for aid and weaponry for some time but will never let go of China.
The US has courted Pakistan for the following reasons:
1. (For short term) To nab OBL.
2. To have a strong Muslim ally in the heart of Asia (America's list of allies in the Muslim world grows thin and America prefers not to have another Muslim enemy in Pakistan which incidently was a former ally against soviets)
3. To drag (nuclear)Pakistan out of Chinese sphere of influence.
4. To prevent nukes from falling in the hands of radicles.
5. (of secondry importance) Use Pakistan as a gateway for Central Asian oil.
To court Pakistan the US will be pumping in billions of dollars plus advance military hardware and all of which will have one single target........India. India's biggest security nightmare is to have Pakistan and China knocking on India's doors, one on the east and other on the west. China is a military gaint and Pakistan has the access to US technology and support plus the support of the Muslim world.
To prevent this from happening India has two options:
1. To form an alliance with the US to deter China.
2. Failing option #1 India should seek to enter into some sort of understanding with China and join a Russia lead (BRIC) alliance that would put Pakistan and US in the same camp poised againts a gaint alliance of Russia-China-India-Brazil. (Which would be America's worst nightmare).
As the US remain preoccupied with Iraq, Afganistan, Iran and Pakistan it losses precious time amd money even as China is gaining a toehold in its diplomacy vis-à-vis India where the US should have ideally won hands down.