What is wrong to get used as long as it benefits you? Let US use us against China like they used Pakistan against Soviet Union. Pakistan is still surviving on those doles. They have understood their core competence is in fields like terrorism & double-speak. They are still surviving doing that. In our case, US is using India economically as a counter to China. They want to build factories & software shops here to counter the influence of China, which is a good thing for us.