From India's POV, the only two issues are
- Water security — China controls the source of the Brahmaputra River (east), Indus River (west), and the Sutlej River (west). If China does anything that would alter the water flow into India (it would likely be because China needs to do it for itself, not to screw over India for fun), that could be devastating to populations in those watersheds. However, any dam actions on the latter two would affect Pakistan, so really its the only the Brahmaputra that India worries about. Which leads to...
- Pakistan — aka India's evil twin (in their opinion), and China's BFF and only true ally for 65 years and counting. Note that a preferentialrelationship with Pakistan is not mutually exclusive to good relations with both India and Pakistan. The issues between these two countries are none of China's business, and the onus is on India to solve it, not China to stop supporting Pakistan, which would be an advocation for denial of sovereignty to Pakistan, not much different than Israel vs Arab world conflict. This is out of China's hands.
- Anti-China Axis — the West, specifically the US, wants to encircle China, like it did with the USSR during the Cold War, by controlling directly or with significant diplomatic leverage regions physically surrounding China. India being on the western/southern/southwes
tern frontier of China is a vital part of this encirclement. China wants to convince India that "containing the rise of China" is not as nice as the alternative "rising with China". - Tibet — aka territory that China almost lost forever (joining a huge list of other places since 1842) and still has undefined border due to Western imperialism, and a spiritual extension of Bharat. India's support for the Dharamasala regime is a huge issue for China, but not even headline-worthy for India. However, I think the onus is on China to win over the Dharamasala regime and convince them that living in Tibet is nice. This is out of India's hands.
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