China expresses willingness to import more Indian products to balance trade, amidst strained India-China relations and ahead of potential US tariffs. Bilateral trade reached $101.7 billion in 2023-24, with India having a significant deficit. Economic cooperation and diplomatic engagements continue despite past border conflicts.
If china manages its relationship with India well enough that the us can’t get Indian help during ww3, then that’s pretty much checkmate for the us.
Nuclear war or help from India is literally the only possibility of western imperialism ever defeating china (although in either scenario, western imperialism will also collapse).
Extremely overhyping India’s military capabilities, in every skirmish with Chinese troops they have repeatedly lost over the past decades. Their equipment is also bizarrely sourced, half from NATO and half from Russia, meaning theres low equipment standardization and precarity in the event that they piss off either bloc. India is completely insignificant militarily, and heavily economically reliant on both China, and the US. And in any scenario where they fight a conventional war with China, they will lose, and in the event of a nuclear war, nobody wins anyways.
I still think that in a ww3 scenario, China will win no matter what, but the west could drag things out much longer if they have India.