Great to see an Indian perspective on China issue.

An India/Australia alliance makes sense. There are no problems with China's sovereignty, but China has illegally claimed sovereignty over the South China Sea, and that is a problem, as is its constant threat to the Indian Ocean and to its neighbour and our fellow Commonwealth partner, India. We should all be making much more of the Commonwealth against the China threat.

On military aggression, I have read an article (the details of which have since dimmed) suggesting that the PLA isn't worth a cracker because it is manned by wusses of the one child policy; the children having been treated like "little emperors" by parents and grandparents and spoilt to the point of uselessness. India is more than capable of dealing with China in the military area.

The war that China is good at is the one that it has been engaged in for a long time against the rest of the world: the psychological, technological cold that the Western politicians haven't yet recognised as war.

Oops. I just remembered also reading that the Australian military geniuses have admitted to favour recruiting girls over men into the infantry. So, we might well need India as well as the US to help us out if ever there is a shooting war. Can you imagine Scott Morrison, with the help of ladies, running a war?

China is rapidly becoming the largest economic and military power in the world! And taking what she wants in small bites from isolated states, none of who have, as single states, any inclination to stand up to the bully on the block!

And democracies can be broken from within, by folk who constantly condemn or criticize!

India needs new partners and alliances/trading partners/trade deals.

To ensure there's too much commercial interest to lose, for other major powers/corporations.

And we should for our part retrospectively reverse particular foreign investments which are not in the interest of our own security!

A Darwin port anyone?
Alan B.

The last thing we need in the Indo-Pacific region is a NATO-type alliance whose sole aim is to bully China into a corner just as the US-led NATO has done to Russia.
And yes, I'm sure we'd all agree that 'Don't do unto others what you don't want done unto you' is indeed a good yardstick for all countries to live by. So why has the US used NATO to surround Russia with military bases? And why has it likewise surrounded China with its threatening military might? We all know it wouldn't tolerate a skerrick of this aggression being applied to its own borders.
What gives the US the right to expect China and Russia to heel to its demands, while it bullies, invades and plunders whatever country it chooses to? China and Russia are increasingly making it clear that they will no longer tolerate these double standards. And many around the world are welcoming their tempering of American hegemony.

Bully China into a corner. Get real, Bronwyn. What are you: the Chinese ambassador in drag?

Bronwyn, please give examples of those welcoming declining US hegemony.

Always looks better with evidence.