“They are. Can’t have 1B+ people each living next door, and not be competitors. The Indians made their nukes not because they’re worried about the morons in “Pok-e-ston” but because they’ve got 300M Chinese next door that’d love the weather on coast of Indian Ocean.”
Technology, education, and economics counts for far more than the amount of land a country has nowadays. By your standards, Japan would be an aggressive country since it only has 4 tiny islands while Russia should be a paragon of peace(since it has so much territory).
I don’t think India and China necessarily have to be strategic competitors(unless their leaders are idiots of course).
No offense, but you have either completely misunderstood, or are extremely naive about geopolitics.
Japan has about NEGATIVE population growth rate and is ONLY 127M, furthermore, it has been collectively victimized by WWII to never be agressive again. Chinese and Indian cultures are completely different, and there’s 10x of them.