You mean the US is now China's favourite mercenary of choice ? Did I read you right or did you read me wrong ?
Perhaps you are ignorant of the kind of defence ties that India enjoys with Vietnam .We're training their submariners to man the Kilo class of submarines , Vietnam has just imported from Russia.We're training their pilots to fly the Su 30 fighter jets too apart from their technicians & engineers.Talks to supply the Brahmos cruise missiles to Vietnam have reached an advanced stage.
Did I also mention co operation agreements in Nuclear trade & technology signed between our two nations with preliminary talks on supplying an LW N Reactor to Vietnam or the setting up of a base station to track satellites launched by ISRO in Vietnam ? No? Well, you read it here first.
Replace India with Pakistan & lottery with CPEC , in the last sentence of your last paragraph & try to tickle yourself if you fail to guffaw.
Just so I sound as juvenile as you & wont as I am not to talk down to you , here's a ditty - Chachundar ke sar par na bhaye chameli.kahaan raja bhoj , kahaan gangu teli.