China’s transgression along the border makes it the modern imperialist state. With the strategy of salami slicing, it continues to grab its neighbour’s land. Brahma Chellaney, a professor of Geostrategy at the Center for Policy Research, defines the policy in terms of ‘nibbling like a silkworm’. Rather than causing the large-scale military escalation to grab areas, they use small provocation methods. First, they claim the area through aggression, and then back off when faced with strong resistance from the opposite side. Under the shadow of nuclear deterrence, this strategy has been followed throughout its history.
Slicing in Nepal
On one hand, China is investing heavily in Nepal’s infrastructure projects, and on the other, they have captured a whole village near the border. According to a report published in The Sunday Guardian, taking the benefit of porous and weak fencing infrastructure, China has grabbed the Nepali land. It is reported that by erecting 200-meter fencing along the Ruila border post of Chumanubari Village-1 of the Gorkha district, China has effectively made Nepal’s land a Chinese territory.
Further, by erecting a gate along the fencing, China has made Nepal’s area their own territory which till last month was used by villagers for unrestricted movements.
Earlier in June 2020, through the same salami-slicing tactics, China had grabbed more than 28 hectares of Nepali land spread along four districts of Humla, Rasuwa, Sankhuwasabha, and Sindhupalchok. When the world was battling the Chinese virus, China, simply shifting the border pillars, made about 190 households of Nepal Chinese citizens.
Moreover, when Nepal’s former prime minister, KP Sharma Oli released a map showing the Indian territory of Kalapani, Lipulekh, and Limpiyadhura as their own at the same time, China had annexed a whole village Rui in Gorkha district.
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Salami slicing in other neighbouring areas
Rejecting the judgment of the United Convention on Laws of Sea, China has effectively established an administrative district for the Spratly and Paracel Archipelagos and has named 80 islands in the South China Sea. Confronting regularly small pacific neighbours like Vietnam and the Philippines, China has grabbed their territorial water claiming them as their exclusive economic zone.
Not only with India, but China has also transgressed toward 17 of its neighbours claiming their land and sea territory as their own. With the Philippines Scarborough Reef and Spratly Island, Vietnam for Paracel Islands, Japan for Senkaku and Ryukyu Islands, South Korea over Socotra Rock in the East China Sea, and even North Korea over the demarcation of the border in the Sea of Japan. Further, the country has land border disputes with Myanmar, Mongolia, Laos, Bhutan, and Nepal. China has already captured Tibet in 1950 itself.
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In recent times, India has successfully foiled the Chinese salami-slicing along the Himalayan border. First, China faced a bloody nose in Doklam near the tri-border area of India, China, and Bhutan. In June 2020, the same tactics were followed by them in Galwan. But the Special Frontier Forces (SFF) of the Indian Army reacted with disproportionate force and caused huge damage to the enemy. And, now China is trying to pacify the position with India.
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