NEW DELHI—The China regime’s media war on India has gained pace and spice since last year’s bloody clash in the Galwan Valley, with Chinese media offering counter-narratives and reports on topics that include the COVID-19 pandemic, the competition for selling vaccines, and India–U.S. relations. An opinion article published by the Chinese state-run outlet Global Times on Jan. 19 blamed India for using the deterioration of China–U.S. relations to advance its political and economic interests through tighter ties with the United States. Aparna Pande, director of the Initiative on the Future of India and South Asia at the Washington-based Hudson Institute, told The Epoch Times that India doesn’t play a role in Sino-U.S. relations. “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 U.S.–China strategic rivalry, but it dates back to China’s desire to be a global superpower and …