Beijing is resorting to ‘Salami Slicing’ stratagem in neghbourhood, using Myanmar’s armed groups as proxy Shankar Kumar | December 15, 2020 | New Delhi PM Narendra Modi in an all-party meeting earlier this year to discuss the border situation India is facing aggression from China – not in eastern Ladakh alone, rather it is seized with a Beijing-backed proxy war in the northeast region and also ‘Salami Slicing’ of different nature in Arunachal Pradesh and in areas near Sikkim.
However, what has alarmed Indian security personnel the most is China’s use of Myanmar’s armed groups – the Arakan Army and the United Wa State Army – as proxies to supply weapons and providing hideouts to insurgent groups in India’s northeast. China is also training leaders of insurgent groups like ULFA, National Democratic Front of Bodos (NDFB) and Naga rebels in the Chinese city of Kunming.