India plays the same game against the Chinese, in the South China Sea and the difference is that China has more antagonistic and worrisome neighbours than India. For example, Vietnam. Add to that Singapore, Japan, South Korea and Australia, all of which have serious concerns about China, and have held naval exercises with India regularly.
Australia is particularly worthy of mention, because our military ties with India go a lot deeper.
Plus, India has an active aircraft carrier, and China doesn’t. India has been training on carriers for over 50 years, while China is still constructing its first one, and will have to evolve logistics for using them, which isn’t an easy or quick task.
Plus I heard the Chinese have trouble making the “L” sound. That could cause massive carrier screwups. Randing pranes now. Reft fraps down. Randing gear stuck- can’t rower them. Right up the randing rights. Might as well name the first Chicomm carrier the Tower of Babel.
parsy, who thinks about practical things like this