To punch this up and add even more weight to your argument, here are two critical points to append to your thesis:
1. The Weaponization of the Global Commons
The recent geopolitical conflicts have explicitly proven that the US will not hesitate to weaponize the Dollar, SWIFT, and silicon supply chains. We cannot afford a future where a border skirmish with China results in Western sanctions suddenly freezing our forex reserves or choking off our access to critical deep-tech compute. True sovereignty requires indigenizing not just defense hardware, but the underlying financial and digital plumbing.
2. The "Middle-Power" Safety Net
Since we can no longer play Washington and Beijing against each other, our "healthy interdependencies" must bypass the superpowers entirely. We need to aggressively lock in asymmetric alliances: French defense IP, Middle Eastern sovereign capital, and Japanese/Taiwanese manufacturing partnerships. We must make the Indian economy so structurally vital to these middle powers that neither the US nor China can unilaterally isolate us.
Which specific sector—like semiconductors, critical minerals, or AI infrastructure—do you think is currently our biggest strategic vulnerability in this new multipolar reality?