China taking over territory gradually, testing Indias threshold: Army chief Bipin Rawat

September 06, 2017 20:10

China is gradually taking over territory and testing Indias threshold, army chief General Bipin Rawat said on Wednesday, a little over a week after the countries ended one of their worst military face-offs.

Referring to China, Rawat said it had started flexing muscles and Pakistan was likely to take advantage of the situation developing along the northern border. He referred to China and Pakistan as Indias northern and western adversaries, and said the country needs to be prepared for a two-front war.

As far as the northern adversary is concerned, flexing of muscles has startedsalami slicing, taking over territory in a very gradual manner, testing our limits of threshold is something we have to be wary about and remain prepared for situations which could gradually emerge into conflict, Rawat said at a seminar organised by defence think-tank Centre for Land Warfare Studies.

Salami slicing refers to a string of small, clandestine operations meant to achieve a larger goal that would be difficult to accomplish in one go.

The chiefs comments come more than a week after India and China ended a 73-day border face-off in Doklam plateau near Sikkim. Troops were locked in a tense stand-off during which officials in Beijing hinted at drastic consequences such as a wider conflict. Soldiers from the two country also traded blows and threw stones at each other in a more northern region in Ladakh while the Doklam problem went on.

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