[gordongekko]

This will depend on who is telling the "India story"...which itself not a narrative of the Indians themselves.

To those from the native English-speaking World, it is a no-brainer which of the 2 they love cheering for nowadays..Not because a Hindu-majority India is a "democracy" or enjoy an unblemished "human right" track records - we know the West heck care with the systemic discrimination faced by Muslims, X'tians  and ethnic minorities in India...but simply because it is the ONLY country in Asian with the size and proximity the Western  can use in their about turn against the PRC.

So how to get India to "fight" China ? Simple - Divide and Conquer...remember ? This is the exact play-book US is borrowing from their once-mighty cousin British - which succeeded by gradually buying-off individual South Asian tribes, kingdoms and empires ... a 300 years act that unintentionally created  "India" today.

The problem with this Game is the Chinese aren't as dumb as the "Indians" to play along.. - That is why I dare say the Indians are far more emotionally vasted against China simply because the AMTK-mentally still influence Indian thinking today

your reading for Chinese is wrong. It doesn't apply to Hong Kongers, they are slave mentality among Chinese as well, these people are mostly fell for western soft power and don't know western culture good enough. 

Actually, ppl laughing at 五毛should check out how blinded and fanatic Indian are to their misplaced rhetoric by their politicians and local medias. By this tag line surely the media will play along for next 4 years and they will come back in 4 years time to claim their 3rd place ranking. Have you seen any action by Modi Government? he came in to promise 25 years he will make India to be an advanced nation. 8 years past. Is he getting anywhere? actually yes, Indian landed on far side of the moon and going to sun now.