The need to use international law by India to call out China’s violations

What the editorial is about?

The “disregard” by China of “written agreements” with respect to the LAC is not a mere “disregard”. It is a blatant violation of international law as part of a larger game of Chinese expansionism.

Context

The recent meeting of the Foreign Ministers of the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue or the Quad.

How this disregard by China is a blatant violation of international law?

Breach of law

• The India-China LAC engagement is guided by a series of bilateral agreements that the two sides have signed over the years.
• A central tenet of all these agreements is the complete proscription on the threat or use of force. For instance

1993 agreement between India and China

• It provides that neither side shall use or threaten to use force against the other by any mean