india buys a huge amount of weapons and energy from russia. rival pakistan is an intelligence partner of the five eyes. india also just doesn't like the UK for

india buys a huge amount of weapons and energy from russia. rival pakistan is an intelligence partner of the five eyes. india also just doesn't like the UK for colonial reasons. they don't take kindly to being 'told' what to do by the west, which is 110% what is going to happen if they join any kind of economic or defense alliance. "let's all hate china together and be BFFs" sounds great, possibly even the obviously correct, moral and upstanding thing to do if you're a white westerner, for everyone else in sk, india, brazil... it doesn't really work. there's that pesky colonialism/imperialism historical thing always getting in the way.