With 50,000 troops on each side confronting one another in the Himalayas, with China deploying advanced missiles, and India too positioning its assets, any talk of the two nations not posing a threat to each other is empty rhetoric.
China's claims to territory in the South China Sea, its construction of artificial islands in the region, and its establishment of a military base in Djibouti are all evidence of its desire to increase its sphere of influence.