Shotgunner51
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I agree with short gunner here. The thing is though today the PLAN still has a significant lead over the IN, in the coming years/decades it will only get bigger. Since China has a wayyyyy bigger industrial base/shipbuilding capabilities compared to India, they can build at a much more faster rate than India can. In event of conflict, they can easily out built India without much effort. Do in this case industrial might counts more than anything. So if anything, the gap will get bigger this coming decade. However, I don't think there will be any conflict between these two, the PLAN sees the US and Japan as its main enemies/rivals, it can still solve its issues with India since Chinese don't have much hatred/apprehension towards India the way they do with Japan. I believe India and China can come to an understanding much easier than china can with Japan since their differences/hatred runs very deep.
So in short, the PLAN is still ahead of India and it will be even more so in future, but India does have an advantage since its closer to Indian ocean, and the PLAN will naturally keep trying to have a presence in IOR but it will be mainly geared towards the U.S than India. Let's just wait and see how things unfold.
That's right, as mice 2000 pointed out, india is not the among top priorities in PLA's strategic opponents which should be US and Japan instead. On the Pacific theater, PLAN's game plan is A2/AD vs USN/JMSDF's Air-sea battle. About the IOR game plan, it is primarily designed to provide additional/alternative security (on top of USN presence) to the maritime silk road initiative, and act only as a backup plan for any potential incidents (though the chance is remote as we both said) which might occur on the subcontinent.