Pincer Maneuver: Legality of China’s Economic Measures towards India

Adinda Balqis Tegarmas Gemilang

Abstract


China today has an enormously massive and diverse industrial sector which cemented its role as the world’s factory. This status is mainly borne from cheap, plentiful and capable workforce that given by the size of its population. Increasingly belligerent stances taken by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in combination with myriad of other factors have led industries to slowly move their production elsewhere. The alternative, in form of China’s nemesis, India which has started to woo manufacturer to  do business with them as a more competitive and open market in combination with the abundance of cheap and capable workforce. China in realizing this move are now exposed to the existential problem of power. With the wealth accumulated, China has started curbing the effect of the relocation of its manufacturing sectors to India. Initiatives and program that they create have strangely unaffected India in its efforts to enter into the global manufacturing and distribution system. The paper aims at answering the question on the legality of China’s economic measures toward India from the perspective of the existing international law. This normative legal research relies on primary and secondary sources. The study found that the mentioned economic measures are in line with the applicable international law.


Keywords


belt and road initiative; China; future manufacture; India; Maneuver; trade routes

Full Text:

PDF

References


Ahmar, M. (2014). Strategic meaning of the China-Pakistan economic corridor. Strategic Studies, 34, 35-49.

Akande, D., Akhavan, P., & Bjorge, E. (2021). Economic Sanctions, International Law, and Crimes Against Humanity: Venezuela's ICC Referral. American Journal of International Law, 115(3), 493-512.

Al Amaren, E. M., Hamad, A. M., Al Mashhour, O. F., & Al Mashni, M. I. (2020). An introduction to the legal research method: To clear the blurred image on how students understand the method of the legal science research. International Journal of Multidisciplinary Sciences and Advanced Technology, 1(9), 50-55.

Akinyode, B., & Khan, T. H. (2018). Step by Step Approach for Qualitative Data Analysis. International Journal of Built Environment and Sustainability 5(3).

Alpers, E. A. (2014). The Indian Ocean in world history. Oxford University Press.

Bava, S. (2016). India: foreign policy strategy between interests and ideas. In Regional Leadership in the Global System (pp. 125-138). Routledge.

Berridge, G. (2021). Diplomacy: theory and practice. Springer Nature.

Blanchard, J. M. F. (2021). Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) blues: Powering BRI Research Back on Track to Avoid Choppy Seas. Journal of Chinese Political Science, 26(1), 235-255.

Brewster, D. (2014). Beyond the ‘String of Pearls’: is there really a Sino-Indian security dilemma in the Indian Ocean?. Journal of the Indian Ocean Region, 10(2), 133-149.

Brewster, D. (2017). Silk roads and strings of pearls: The strategic geography of China’s new pathways in the Indian Ocean. Geopolitics, 22(2), 269-291.

Callahan, W. A. (2016). China’s “Asia Dream” the belt road initiative and the new regional order. Asian Journal of Comparative Politics, 1(3), 226-243.

Ceglowski, J., & Golub, S. S. (2012). Does China still have a labor cost advantage?. Global Economy Journal, 12(3), 1850270.

Chaziza, M. (2021). The belt and road initiative: New driving force for Sino-Yemen Relationship. China Report, 57(2), 229-246.

Das, C. (2019). India’s Maritime Diplomacy in South West Indian Ocean. Journal of Strategic Security, 12(2), 42-59.

Davis, A. E., & Balls, J. N. (2020). The Indian Ocean Region in the 21st Century: geopolitical, economic, and environmental ties. Australia India Institute.

Eacott, J. (2016). Selling empire: India in the making of Britain and America, 1600-1830. UNC Press Books.

Eloot, K., Huang, A., & Lehnich, M. (2013). A new era for manufacturing in China. McKinsey Quarterly, 1(6), 1-14.

Gittings, J. (2018). The World and China, 1922–1972. Routledge.

Hayes, A. (2020). Interwoven ‘Destinies’: The significance of Xinjiang to the China dream, the belt and road initiative, and the Xi Jinping Legacy. Journal of Contemporary China, 29(121), 31-45.

Jamnejad, M, & Wood, M (2009). “The Principle of Non-Intervention.” Leiden Journal of International Law, 22(2), 45–81.

Jash, A. (2015). The Rising Tide of China in the Indian Ocean Region and India: Strategic Interests and Security Concerns. China in Indian Ocean Region. New Delhi: Allied Publishers, 253-66.

Jetly, R. (2021). The politics of Gwadar Port: Baluch nationalism and Sino-Pak relations. The Round Table, 110(4), 432-447.

Kc, S., Wurzer, M., Speringer, M., & Lutz, W. (2018). Future population and human capital in heterogeneous India. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 115(33), 8328-8333.

Khurana, G. S. (2008). China's ‘String of Pearls’ in the Indian Ocean and its security implications. Strategic Analysis, 32(1), 1-39.

Kroeber, A. ’. (2020). Chin’’s Economy: What Everyone Needs to Know®. Oxford University Press.

Naughton, B. (2017). Is China Socialist?. Journal of Economic Perspectives, 31(1), 3-24.

Panda, J. P. (2014). China’s tryst with the IORA: Factoring India and the Indian Ocean. Strategic Analysis, 38(5), 668-687.

Pattanaik, S. S. (2019). India’s policy response to China’s investment and aid to Nepal, Sri Lanka and Maldives: Challenges and prospects. Strategic Analysis, 43(3), 240-259.

Rahman, S. U., & Shurong, Z. (2017). Analysis of Chinese economic and national security interests in China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) under the framework of One Belt One Road (OBOR) initiative. Arts and Social Sciences Journal, 8(4), 1-7.

Rattan, J. (2020). Changing Dimensions of Intervention Under International Law: A Critical Analysis. International Journal of Research in Engineering, Science and Management, 3(5), 133-141.

Rippa, A. (2020). Mapping the margins of China’s global ambitions: economic corridors, Silk Roads, and the end of proximity in the borderlands. Eurasian Geography and Economics, 61(1), 55-76.

Ruys, T. (2014). The Meaning of “Force” and the Boundaries of the Jus Ad Bellum: Are “Minimal” Uses of Force Excluded from UN Charter Article 2(4)?. American Journal of International Law, 108(2), 159-210.

Salguero, C. P. (2014). Translating Buddhist Medicine in Medieval China. University of Pennsylvania Press.

Santuraki, S. U. (2020). Use of Force or Diplomatic Intervention: Assessing the Blockade of Qatar. IIUM Law Journal, 28(2), 503-530.

Scott, D. (2013). India’s role in the South China Sea: geopolitics and geoeconomics in play. India Review, 12(2), 51-69.

Summers, T. (2016). China’s ‘New Silk Roads’: sub-national regions and networks of global political economy. Third World Quarterly, 37(9), 1628-1643.

Sun, D., & Zoubir, Y. (2017). “Development first”: China’s investment in seaport constructions and operations along the maritime Silk road. Asian Journal of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, 11(3), 35-47.

Tekdal, V. (2018). China’s Belt and Road Initiative: at the crossroads of challenges and ambitions. The Pacific Review, 31(3), 373-390.

Van Steen, G. (2017). Inglorious Barbarians: Court Intrigue and Military Disaster Strike Xerxes,“The Sick Man of E’rope”. In Brills Companion to the Reception of Aeschylus (pp. 243-269). Brill.

Weimar, N. D. (2013). Sino-Indian power preponderance in maritime Asia: a (re-) source of conflict in the Indian Ocean and South China Sea. Global Change, Peace & Security, 25(1), 5-26.

Wen, Y. (2016). China’s rapid rise. Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis The Regional Economist, 24(2), 8-14.




DOI: https://doi.org/10.18196/iclr.v5i1.17157

Refbacks

  • There are currently no refbacks.


Copyright (c) 2022 Adinda BAlqis Gemilang

Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. View My Stats