China-watchers describe the strategy as “salami slicing” — expanding its sphere of influence bit by bit and testing international norms in small ways.

who has lambasted Tokyo’s muted response to what he calls China’s “salami-slicing tactics”. In scathing remarks, Matsubara accused the Japanese government of failing to counter Beijing’s ...

This situation is made worse by the practice of fragmenting single coherent bodies of research into as many publications as possible — the practice of scientific salami slicing. Peer review is a ...