To make India reliant on China, there is no puzzle here, just one that you're making up from the top of your head. Really, how do you think investments work?
By the way, it's the size of the economies and populations that dictate how much a organization or nation invests in the target market. India has a larger population, and bigger economy, so China expects a larger return, but in order to do that, it must invest a lot too. Pakistan just can't compete at that level.
Having said that, what Pakistan is offering China cannot be replaced by India. If you can offer China a better route than Gwadar, and give up your global ambitions, not to mention give up your regional and global rivalry, then you'll find that China will be cooperative.
As far as China is considered, as long as India remains a rival, Pakistan is needed as a counter balance to keep India preoccupied. No amount of land or deals will change that fact, unless (like I said before) India gives up it's ambitions.
Incorrect train of thought. Even if China were to build a pipeline from say Kandla port to China, it would not in any way make India give up its global ambitions.
The logic that India has to give up its global ambitions to offer China ports and roads is a massive falacy. Both can proceed equally and without impinging on the other.
It is obvious that as long as India remains a rival, Pakistan is needed as a counter balance. However, a counter balance is of different levels. Pakistan is simply not in the weight category to be an equal counter balance and be able to confine India's global ambitions, if anything the last decade has proved this to both China and the world which till a 1.5 decades back used to equate India and Pakistan.
What you are missing here is that China has over 180 nations to invest in it. And investing its single largest amount in one country suggests something that you are acutely missing - that China is hedging its bets.
It wants good relations with India and is willing to put
money where it is not willing to put its mouth - yet. On the other hand with Pakistan, China is willing to put its mouth but not its money(any significant amount). There is something that Pakistani's keep missing when thinking of India China relations. You presume our rivalry is like India Pakistan. It is not, India and China has no significant dispute, no ideological dispute. Our only dispute is land, and while we both lay claim to what is in each others control, we have never fired a
single bullet in the last 3 decades even when troops met. The border with China is the most peaceful border India has!
We both understand that eventually we will keep what is in our control respectively.
If India gives up it's ambitions, than Pakistan and India have no real problems, so a war would be next to pointless.
So your entire train of thought is pointless. It's simple logic, based on geopolitical realities.
Completely wrong. Even if India gave up its global ambitions, Pakistan would continue to remain a hostile entity to India. Because our global ambitions have
nothing to do with Kashmir. We would still never let Kashmir go.
You make your Army sound as if all it wants is to
stop India from becoming a global power. That is completely incorrect. What Pakistan really wants is to ensure that it gets Kashmir, and keeps damaging India for a lot of reasons - including religious and ideological ones. That means not just stop India from becoming a global power but actively reduce India and keep chipping away what it has.
So our global ambitions or not, Pakistan would continue its current course that it has chosen for the last 3 decades. Consequently, our response to Pakistan would also be the same. The only change that would happen and is inevitable is that India and China would resolve our land boundary and Pakistan would be left anchorless in its ambitions against India. Because China is not going to damage its investment worth hundreds of billions of dollars in India for Pakistan
