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