China’s Ploy in Bhutan: Grabbing Territories by Building Infrastructure

As a matter of strategy, for nearly a decade, China has steadily injected its own resources in contested geographies to assert its claim to such territories.

In the regions bordering Tibet through settlements of relative affluence, China has been effectively putting to use the salami-slicing technique to not only strengthen its position along the disputed frontiers but also to gradually cut off piece-by-piece the other nations’ territory.