Delhi must be prepared to counter Beijing’s lawfare
Hindustan TimesRecent reports of China settling people in the villages called “ Xiaokang ” along its border with India are disturbing. It signals China’s resolve to settle land border disputes with countries like India on its terms and emphasises civilians cooperating with China’s People’s Liberation Army in land border defence. This law is part of China’s broader and long-term strategy of legal warfare or lawfare, which Charles Dunlap defines as “a method of warfare where law is used as a means of realising a military objective”. As American scholar Orde Kittrie writes in his book, Lawfare: Law as a Weapon of War, China has a long history of gaming the international legal system for its benefit. So, in areas that fall under the Philippines’s EEZ, China, employing its coast guard law, started massive construction work transforming underwater reefs into above-sea artificial islands with runways and control towers.
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