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In the late 1990s, during the height of China's Strike Hard Campaign in its Western Xinjiang Province, a number of separatist militants and religious scholars re-mobilised their own terrorist outfit. By using countries such as Afghanistan and Pakistan as save havens, they turned a domestic conflict into the international arena. Henceforth, Beijing was confronted with a range of new security challenges. Domestically, counter-terrorism measures drew on mixed efforts in counter-insurgency and tackling developmental root causes. Internationally China's security agencies were forced to build up new mechanisms of cooperation that went far beyond cooperation in the ongoing Global War on Terror.

This Adelphi focuses on what kind of terrorist challenges China is confronted with including the evolution of contemporary terrorist movements, their violent potential and the degree of their integration within international militant networks. It outlines how China's security apparatus and foreign policies were adapted to the new challenges domestically and internationally. For that matter it analyzes individual external cooperations such as with the United States, Pakistan and the SCO. As a reaction to its non-traditional security challenges China has improved its cooperative security approach.