NEW DELHI—China’s media war on India has heightened since last year’s bloody conflict at Galwan, gaining pace and spice, with the Chinese media replete with counter-narratives and reports on topics ranging from the pandemic to competition for selling vaccines to relations with the United States. An opinion article published by the Chinese state-run media the Global Times on Jan. 19 blamed India for taking advantage of the deterioration of China-U.S. relations to get closer to the United States for its political and economic interests. Aparna Pande, director, Initiative on the Future of India and South Asia at the Washington DC-based Hudson Institute told The Epoch Times that the relations of China and the United States depend upon the two countries, and India doesn’t play a role in it. “If the U.S.-China relation is problematic, it’s China which is to be blamed for it. There’s a U.S.-China peer competition, there’s a …