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cabbage strategy It is also called as ‘salami-slicing’ strategy. Under this strategy, a contested area is surrounded by multiple security layers to deny access to the rival nation and is claimed subsequently. As per the observers, China, for a long time, has been pursuing this strategy, over the land and in the oceans against her neighbouring countries like India, Japan, Bhutan, the Philippines, Japan, Malaysia and Brunei as a tool to expand its frontiers. Cabbage strategy in the South China Sea China’s claim over islands in the South China Sea is of centuries old. However, the first official claim in the modern period dates back to 1947, wherein it demarcated its claims with a U-shaped line made up of eleven dashes on a map. In the early 1950s’, two dashes of the proposed line around the Gulf of Tonkin were removed to pacify the Communist Government in Noth Vietnam. Subsequently, the nine-dash line has emerged as the new flashpoint, which covers  two groups of islands -...

Among the biggest victims of the coronavirus pandemic is the fiction of amicable U.S.-China  relations.. Those ties have been worsening for years, even before President Trump decided to call out Beijing’s predatory behaviour starting in 2017. With the crisis now pitting America and China openly against each other, it seems impossible to salvage the old working ties. Washington now faces an unambiguously adversarial relationship with the Chinese Communist Party, one in which global ideological blocs may be drawn. Losing this new cold war would be a grievous blow to global transparency and liberal order. It would also threaten a significant reduction of American power and influence abroad.  Even just a few months ago, it appeared that traditional engagement between the United States and China might survive. The trade agreement  was the most visible sign that elites in both countries wanted to return to some level of normalcy. Outstanding issues such as Huawei and 5G...

As  coronavirus  cases and deaths spike in China, the regime in Beijing is looking for a devil to blame. The U.S. has “unceasingly manufactured and spread panic,” Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying   said   at the beginning of this month about the coronavirus epidemic, which has now spread to much of China.​ In the same vein, the  Global Times , a Communist Party-controlled tabloid,  has accused the U.S. of “immoral” conduct  and  repeatedly claimed  the West’s response to the disease is stained by “racism” and a “ ‘yellow peril’ mythology.” The paper also said, referring to the H1N1 outbreak in 2009, that “the U.S. failed to adopt effective control measures, causing a worldwide spread of the virus.” In fact, the U.S. response to the virus, which first appeared in Mexico, was generally considered both swift and effective. The Foreign Ministry's Hua early this month also accused the U.S. of not offer...