Why prioritizing China over India in military cooperation makes sense

I've argued for years that America should seek military alliance with China, believing that such a strategic partnership in spreading and protecting globalization would serve each country's supreme national interest. Here's why:

For America to win a long war against radical extremism, we need to make globalization truly global by effectively integrating the one-third of humanity whose noses remain pressed to the glass, wondering when they'll be connected to the global economy. That's labor-intensive, whether it's post-conflict stabilization and reconstruction in failed states or infrastructure development and market creation in developing economies.

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Tom's comment:

I wanted to simultaneously repurpose the USN&WR column's main thrust and spin it off a question I fielded last week from a reader.