Salami Slicing strategy

Subject: IR

Context:

China made intrusion into Galwan Valley, Hot Springs and Pangong Tso areas in Eastern Ladakh. This is seen as Chinese ‘salami slicing’ attempt to shift the Sino-India LAC further west in the disputed region

Concept:

• In military terms, salami slicing is described as a strategy that involves divide and conquer process of threats and alliances to overcome opposition and acquire new territories.
• It is series of many small actions, often performed by clandestine means, that as an accumulated whole produces a much larger action or result that would be difficult or unlawful to perform all at once.
• In the context of China, salami slicing denotes its strategy of territorial expansion in the South China Sea and the Himalayan regions.