The arms race is actually good for us. Since it's developing our defence industry. If the Soviet MIC did not exist the Americans would have won the cold war a lot earlier.China is drawing India into an expensive Arms Race which will hurt our Socio Economic development
Just like USA did to USSR
And then the internal " fissiparous forces " will get a huge boost
No matter how much we spend
We cannot MATCH China in
Buying Ship for Ship or Plane for Plane -- Contest
This is just the first year of our Cold War with China
And so we need An alliance with USA
If we want to prevent Bankruptcy
We don't need to match China. For that you have U.S and Japan. The quad drama is that for for giving us breathing space so that we can build up till the time to fight comes..