I know you get nightmares about big bad US and its covert plans
Well, it's not I who gets nightmares. It's the U.S too, where China and India are concerned. Read on if you have the time and inclination.....
According to the book,
Asia responds to its rising powers, edited by Ashley J. Tellis, Travis Tanner, and Jessica Keough, neither China nor India is a formal ally of the United States, and, hence,
they are not bound to refrain from using their increased capabilities to undermine larger U.S. interests.
Given this possibility, it is not surprising that the rise of the new Asian giants, while obviously beneficial to the United States in many ways is nonetheless raising old questions about whether the expanded liberal order is an unambiguous good if its net result is the
creation of new economic rivals who could threaten the well-being of the United States.
If Beijing and New Delhi were Washington’s alliance partners, this problem might have been somewhat mitigated. But this problem is certainly exacerbated by the possibility that at least one country, China—the faster-growing and the more capable of the two Asian giants, with an authoritarian regime to boot—appears poised to become a serious geostrategic competitor to the United States.
This danger, in turn, raises more central questions: Is the current U.S. strategy of expanding the liberal international order actually
breeding new rivals and producing new competitors and new threats to Washington’s power and dominance? And if it is, is it worth the cost? A positive answer to the second question could be defended if, at the end of the day, the liberal international system including the U.S. would assuredly
defang the harmful ambitions of all new rising powers (Including India).
So there! The bottom line is the U.S would brook no change in the international pecking order where U.S strategic interests are concerned, whether it be China or India.
