Subject: IR Context: Heart of the PRC’s strategy to manage its periphery which is often referred to as Mao’s ‘Five Finger strategy’ Concept: The Five Fingers of Tibet is a Chinese foreign policy attributed to Mao Zedong that considers Tibet to be China’s right hand palm, with five fingers on its periphery: Ladakh, Nepal, Sikkim, Bhutan, and Arunachal Pradesh, and that it is China’s responsibility to “liberate” these regions.