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Chinese salami slicing strategy
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China's salami slicing (Chinese: 蚕食; pinyin: Cán shí; transl. "nibbling like a silkworm"[1]) is a geopolitical strategy involving a series of small steps allegedly taken by the government of China that would become a larger gain which would have been difficult or unlawful to perform all at once.[2][3][4] When discussing this concept, notedly debated in the publications of the Lowy Institute from Australia, some defenders of the concept are Brahma Chellaney, Jasjit Singh, Bipin Rawat or the ORF from India or the USIP, Bonnie S. Glaser (CSIS) or Erik Voeten (Washington Post) from the US, while detractors are H. S. Panag from India or Linda Jakobson. Advocates[who?] of the term have cited examples such as the territorial disputes in the South China Sea and along the Sino-Indian border.
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