Xinhua says so

The ONGC’s move to explore oil in parts of the South China Sea seems to have caused more alarm in China than New Delhi’s other strategic moves recently. An article in state-run Xinhua news agency saying “India is acting out of an inferiority complex” towards China is the latest example of it. “By currying favour with China’s neighbour, in particular, those who have brewed disputes with China, India would assume, it could instigate these smaller nations to engage in a gang fight against China and contain China’s growing clout in the region,” the article said. The obvious target is ONGC’s deal with a Vietnamese oil company to jointly explore oil resources in the South China Sea that Beijing claims to be its own. The Chinese foreign ministry has repeatedly warned India against such moves that amount to “interference in China’s relationship with its neighbours’’. The news agency put aside niceties while proclaiming that India was “beaten by the Chinese army” in the 1960s.