The Americans and the west have been pushing the narrative that countries should not be over dependent on China for trade, technology and everything. But it is ok to be overdependent on the Americans or the west. So they started to push the agenda for decoupling, but this failed and now calling for derisking.
India is perhaps the exemplary country that practised this non dependence on China strategy to the hilt. India bought its weapons from countries around the world, the best from Russia, UK, France, America, Israel and whoever, not from China. The Indian armed forces is like a United Nations of weapons manufacturers. India has gone to the stage of building the airframe of an aircraft, fitted with American engine, Italian tyres, European avionics and Russian weapons. This is like buying a car, with parts from all over the world and assembled in India...not to be dependent on any one country.
Pakistan on the other hand did not have this problem and would not be misled by this crazy and flimsy strategy of the West. Pakistan not only bought aircraft and weapons from China, but the whole operating systems, including radars and SAMs.
The merits or demerits of the two strategies are best demonstrated in the Operation Sindoor, between India and Pakistan. The rojak system of India failed miserably when all the parts cannot be put together to function as a whole system. The India Pakistan War speaks for itself and is telling the potential buyers of weapons systems what is best for their own interests and not be misled by the mischievous agenda and narratives of the West. But many countries like to believe in the American and western lies, especially Asian and Asean countries. They will continue to ransack all the western junkyards to find some discarded stuff and pay a ransom for them because they are made in the West.