China is very powerful now but it'll be alone at the first sign of aggression !

ttbn,
The funny bit is that Japan has but a fraction of the equipment that India has.

For example:
Japan, 700 aircraft, 330 of which are fighters.

Indian Air Force,1,700 planes, 900 of which are combat aircraft (mostly dual purpose)
and that’s not counting the Army, the Navy and Coast Guard aircraft.

Is Mise,

All due respect to India and it's value to us, but Japan is very smart and more efficient, I believe.

Individual,

Not sure about that. There's Russia. And who knows what China is capable of doing to force people to cooperate with them via the BRI they have signed up for - including many European countries who have fallen for economic opportunities offered by China.

ttbn,
You said that Japan was the best equipped, but it isn’t, and we haven’t even mentioned nuclear capability.
What’s funny about “equipt” it’s a perfectly good English word, buy a dictionary.

Dear Ttbn,

«And who knows what China is capable of doing to force people to cooperate with them via the BRI they have signed up for»

In war time, signed agreements are not worth the paper they were written on, only the guns speak!

Si vis pacem, para bellum!

Yuyutsu

They say not to quote Latin phrases, but since we are, we do!

“Quod ali cibus est aliis fuat acre venenum” Better fits I believe.

Rapacious politicians and their cronies, striving for their own personal gain, is our own weakness as a Nation.
The Chinese are masters at plundering that particular Achilles Heel.

The belt and road is a distraction. Always reflect the question which is most relevant to the issue, and usually the best hidden as a consequence of the unpalatable nature of the possible answer to that question.

In this case, the answer to the hidden question is “Trojan Horse”.

Dan