Indian response to Russia's co-option and severe US pressures on N-deal by making favourable noise to China may not be sound strategy. The Chinese occupation is real and threat potent one both to India's territory and our Constitutional edifice. China MUST withdraw from an existing position, while US threat is that is MIGHT force compromise on Indian law, which is not an existing reality. To cope with future threats by compromising on REAL and existing threat could only be useful as a smoke-signal. If non-alignment must be tuned with pragmatic considerations then strategic cooperation with US remains the only valid option.
