This isn't an attempt to check China, this is an attempt to check Asia, and the Indians are too stupid to realise this.What is this shit global power? India is way behind developed countries, Only thing we are good at is taking body bags home which western countries are so afraid.
Japan has no army but has global presence.
We need 20-30 yrs of constant development to become developed country. But remember other countries 2hich already developed will be even more developed by than.
The West is afraid of and opposed to any country or bloc with a substantial population or landmass potentially overtaking them and reversing their global hegemony. They are not afraid of or opposed to China per se.
The Indians have fallen into the American trap by putting itself forward as the counter to not only China but the whole Eurasian bloc which was and is threatening to overtake the West economically, technologically and eventually, militarily.
By engaging India as the spoiler, the Americans have killed two birds with one stone. Simultaneously, they have disrupted the Chinese while making sure the other potential player, India, is also engaged militarily and is forever reliant on the patronage and goodwill of the West.
India, for its part thinks, with the help of the West, it can beat down the Chinese and take their place as the economic giant of Asia. The West is never going to let this happen. They will let the Asians fight amongst themselves and reap the benefits by weakening both sides at the same time.
The only way to counter this was to do what the Chinese wanted and which they proposed to India, which was to create a bloc which included China, India, Russia, Pakistan, Iran, the CAR's etc. That would have been a formidable bloc that could have challenged the West. The Indians through their short sightedness and greed have rendered this not possible and in doing that have plunged the whole Eurasian region into a long and costly conflict which carries potentially existential threats to regional countries and not least of all, to India itself.
The corollary here is obvious. Either the Eurasian bloc will take on India and will destroy it or the India/West axis will prevail leaving India at the tender mercies of the West, who will then have a free hand to cut India down to size to suit its own interests.