The first aggression on China's part will lose it all its uneasy "friends". China is so low on soft-power that even a test in space gets the powers that be to protest loudly. Should it fire a single missile at any of its neighbours, the world will drop China like a hot-potato.
India's soft-power will mean more countries will condemn any chinese aggression and get the US, Australia and possibly Russia and Japan to retaliate on India's behalf. More a question of timing.
cmdJing knows so little about the Chinese PLA like all his country-men that he's assuming that they are more powerful than they are. Chine being able to produce its own weapons doesn't mean it can win a war against India. In all, its not how many weapons one can make but how many weapons one has that counts. Given the quality of Chinese manufactures, I'm not going to bet too heavily on a Chinese win.
Let's not underestimate China...I would give them a few things...China has a strong center...They have a very high amount of resources available to them..They don't always need to exert military power to get their way.....They are today sitting on this huge pile of a trillion dollars...What that means is that they can buy their way in and out of any situation...
Their central structure has a deep understanding of today's issues and they are good students...
There is no such thing as winning a war against China..No one..not even the mighty Americans can win a land war against China...Every one learned that in Korea and Vietnam...
You mean same quality of hardware that allows them to shoot down a satellite (measuring at most 4 feet) in space and it's a moving target too? It means their guidance system is accurate within 1 meter and that's on a BALLISTIC missile too.
The reason why Japan and US complained so loudly against it is because they have underestimated Chinese capabilities.