[25.06.09] China and the Global War on Terror
The Norwegian Institute of International Affairs [NUPI] has the great pleasure of inviting you to a seminar with guest researcher at NUPI, Marc Lanteigne on:
China and the Global War on Terror
China’s approach to the war on terror (fankong zhanzheng) over the past decade has largely been in step with international debates and practices, but the country has reconsidered its approach to domestic and international terrorism as a result of numerous events since the 1990s. The breakup of the Soviet Union placed a great deal of irredentist pressure of China’s non-Han outlying regions and has increased Chinese sensitivities towards “splittism” (separatism) due to either internal or external pressures.
After September 11th, Beijing was among the first governments to pledge support for American-led efforts to combat terrorism internationally. China’s post-Dengist foreign policy has shifted greatly from a concentration on traditional security, namely the aspects of state-to-state conflict, to more non-traditional strategic issues such as terrorism and international crime. China today has offered its assistance through both bilateral and multilateral talks in fighting terrorism, but that has not meant that Chinese and Western views on this subject are completely compatible.
Marc Lanteigne is lecturer in International Relations at University of St. Andrews, School of International Relations. The next two months he is guest researcher at Department for Russia and Eurasian Studies at NUPI.