nope its Indian backyard and they are a "regional" power with quotation mark in their own rightChina should answer this with low-interest or no-interest debt and SWAP agreements. India is not in a position to play economic hegemonism in China's backyard if China doesn't allow it. India neither has economic size, tax base, consumer market or external trade volume to play this game. The only reason it can play hegemonism is China's decision to not to play this game.
and China is mostly east/south east asian centric country, this is not part of Chinese influence or at least when competing with India, rn 7 out of 10 India will win south asian geopolitical games as they hold a lot of cards (geography)
But China needs to play an active role in south asia/ middle east if it wants kick US out of Asia (as US control regions through satellite states, India, Saudi, Israel, Egypt to control regions, either win the trust of these states, replace em with someone, or make it hard for them to play their games)
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