Re: China may attack India by 2012
Doesn't India's economy depend on US as well? namely IT services and such?
China has spydered into almost every manufacturing field there is. Also the fact that China-US are equally as dependant on each other, because China has financed a large chunk of US, can be the tipping point in decision making if China decides to venture out in terms of "regional conflict", i doubt US will do much more than shout or condemn any actions.
Nonetheless, any regional conflict at the scale of two nations going to war will have lasting consequences for the entire region, and specifically immediate neighbors who will definitely become a part of, party to, or victim of the conflict.