India Better Partner than China for US

Rex Tillerson, the US Secretary of State, said Yesterday that India was a better long-term bet for the US than was China.  Then he gave reasons why that was true:  (1) they don’t steal our technology and use it to compete against us. (2) they don’t make territorial claims on other countries and (3) they abide by international law , though he was also mentioning that in the context of violating sanctions the vote for in the UN.  This must have not gone over well with the Chinese.  I guess we have not been considering the obvious:  when you have a friend like China, you might want to look for new friends.