China: The Doctrine of the Three Wars (San zhong zhanfa)

China uses its legislation for political and military purposes, enacting laws claiming territorial claims and rights under international law. China is using its legislation as part of a hybrid or asymmetric war it is waging against its neighbors and their claimed territories.

This deliberate ambiguity between War and Peace is enshrined in the official strategy of the Chinese regime as the doctrine of the “three wars” (san zhong zhanfa).

Legislation guided by China’s interests is thus one of the weapons of China’s hybrid war, along with psychological warfare and the joining of public opinion.

Through these techniques, Chinese President Xi Jinping is promoting Chinese expansion without the involvement of military-style operations. On the other hand, the application of the doctrine of the three wars combined with military operations has brought significant territorial gains to China.

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Within this strategic framework, China intends to re-implement its policy review by drafting and implementing new rules to promote and legitimize its illicit activities retroactively.

  • As part of this strategy, China enacted a land border law to support its territorial revisionism in the Himalayas.
  • It did the same to promote its expansion into the seas of southern and eastern China, enacting a coastguard law and new maritime safety regulations earlier this year.
  • The new laws, which allow the use of force in disputed areas, have been enacted through increasing tensions with neighboring countries.

The Coast Guard Act, treating the disputed waters as Chinese waters, violates the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, increasing the chances of a conflict with Japan or the United States. The land border law also threatens to spark war with India, signaling China’s intention to define its borders unilaterally. It even extends to the transboundary rivers that flow from Tibet, where China declares its right to divert as much of its common waters as it wishes.

These recent laws are the weapons of the three-war strategy in redesigning the map of the South China Sea – despite an International Arbitral Tribunal ruling rejecting Chinese territorial claims there – and then downplaying Hong Kong as a major global financial center.

In the South China Sea, through which 1/3 of the world’s maritime trade passes, China has stepped up legislation to consolidate Chinese control, turning its fabricated historical claims into reality.

In 2020, China created two new administrative districts to strengthen its claims to Spratly and Paracel Islands and other territories. Ignoring international law, China has named 80 islands, reefs and ridges in Chinese, 55 of which are completely submerged.

The Hong Kong National Security Act, passed in 2020, is part of the Chinese Communist regime’s hybrid civil war, aimed at cracking down on the pro-democracy movement in Hong Kong and voiding the guarantees enshrined in the UN Register. of China with the United Kingdom.

The question is whether China enacts similar legislation aimed at Taiwan or even invokes the anti-secession 2005 vote, which underscores China’s determination to bring Taiwan under its control.

Such a move by China could be made after the end of the Beijing Winter Olympics in February. China, overcoming a 1998 bilateral treaty obliging China “not to take unilateral action to change the status quo on the border, has built militarized villages on Bhutan’s northern and western borders.”

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With more than a million detainees, China’s Muslim Gulag in Xinjiang Province has scrapped the 1948 Genocide Convention, which China ratified in 1983. Effective control is the culmination of a strong territorial claim to the United Nations. China is using new legislation to support China’s administration in disputed territories.

The above facts are proof of how successful China is. That is why China has made efforts to create artificial islands and administrative areas in the South China Sea and to pursue a recital of military construction on the Himalayan border that India, Bhutan and Nepal consider to be within their own national borders.

It is the fault of the United States and the West in general that they are focusing on China’s military rise and not on its hybrid war quietly expanding its maritime and land borders without military use. The United States has not presented a coordinated strategy with its allies to tackle the doctrine of China’s three wars.

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