It's not so much that there is one place where it could break out, it's more a case of a general escalation across a broad front, India coming into the China Seas, China coming into the Indian Ocean, India backing proxies against China in the Pacific, China backing Pakistan against India on the Subcontinent, so that there are vectors all over the place with tension throughout, making the powder keg exponential and not in any one place, to wit, a cold war between India and China, but a highly unstable one, with multiple vectors to escalate to a hot war precipitously.DrYouth wrote:So Nepal maybe?
India is already forming an alliance with Japan in the Pacific, Vietnam as well, because China has begun moving into the Indian Ocean, so India is attempting to outflank China in response to China attempting outflank India, and so on and so forth, which vector would be the one that draws them head to head is hard to say, because there are no so many vectors now and they are expanding as they go, and this, is why they are falling back on nuclear weapons as their insurance policies.
Problem being, it's not like the Americans and Russians were there is a long established Balance of Terror and stability, and America and Russia do not face each other directly across a trace between them, so with India and China, there is plenty of room for a fight to actually break out, and it's not entirely bilateral neither, so there are a lot of moving parts, and tripwires all over the place.