You should also know that geographically Bhutan is depend on China for water, if China want to play hard ball against India over Bhutan, your military present or pro-India regime don't have effective leverage as China could have done. We just take it easy with Bhutan and give them a way out without harm, when come to play the contention game they know how nasty China could be as how we deal with India over tents pitching in april.
And yes your NSA can give as much as advises they want to Bhutan over the border issue, bottom line China will alway get what it want regardless if it will please India or not.
You know what, you Chinese are weaker than Indians. Ask me why.
You are naive and clueless and being so actually gives you self satisfaction as self complacent people cannot face the reality.
Secondly, you Chinese can easily be deceived and emotionally blackmailed.
What is emotional blackmailing?
Suppose, I am your enemy. Now when I see myself in a weaker position and you in a stronger position, I change my strategy and start flattering you or making excuses before you to convince you that you should not kill me.
But that is a trap I laid for you to step in.
The moment, you are convinced and you lose your alertness, I attack you and kill you.
But you should have killed me no matter how much I tried to emotionally blackmail you. If you are stupid, you have to pay a price for your stupidity. After all, everything comes at a price, isn't it?
I told you that Bhutan is Indian colony and when you give any concessions to Bhutan, it goes to the Indian pocket.
Now did you just get what I said?
Bhutan is India. Do you get it now?
So instead of dealing with Bhutan, you have to deal with India directly.
What image? We already got a bad image for one not a democracy, two is communist, three is an Asian nation that has for very long time been really poor.
The third one will change over about a hundred years, the other two will forever tarnish our image while they are not changed.
But that's not the whole picture, America can declare war and people would support, while we only have tensions and the world is going berserk.
No, power is the final judge of image. When one have power, it no longer needs the approval of the others, and that is when we will get our image.
Might was always right, is right and will always be.