Terrorism in China

Terrorism in China

Traditionally, political terrorism is viewed as a phenomenon in democratic countries, because most theorists argue that democratic countries are more vulnerable to political terrorism. As a changing authoritarian state, China was exempt from the affliction of terrorism for many years. However, partly as one aftermath of the "9ㆍ11", discourse on terrorism becomes active in China. The discourse on terrorism not only refers to terrorism in other countries, but also to China. For many outsiders, it seems unbelievable that there are terrorists in China, especially when we think about points of those who think that the regime of Communist China is a type of state-organized terrorism, or that the ethnic separatism in western China is not terrorism at all. This paper attempts to explore the issues of terrorism in China and to address policy measures against terrorism based on literature collected from public sources.