China faces the problem of terrorism

Even China, despite the controls capillaries that the police perform at its core, has to face terrorist incidents of great media impact . Have brought a car bomb in the presence of suicide bomber drove right into the Red Square, the symbol of the nation and for this the most watched , is to put into practice the desire to give an international prominence with a gesture that must be seen by all the world and that it must also be pointed out that Chinese security is not so inviolable. Beijing 's strategy of suppression of freedom , focused not only political dissidents , but is using pressures of various kinds and in different ways , but applied in a systematic way to those regions , where the local ethnic group is not represented by the dominant China , the Han , generally conforms to Chinese thought . The need to suppress any form of dissent based on nationalist issues , which emphasize a very varied range of reasons, ranging from respect for the traditions , to the separatist sentiments , has forced the various Chinese governments to use a mix of measures to reduce minimizing the chances of populations and territories in revolt. Military repression , imprisonment and even made ​​of heavy sentences , including a heightened use of capital punishment, it is associated with the facilitation of internal migration of the Han in critical areas , to dilute the concentration of different ethnic groups , which have been subject , in turn, also of forced migration . On the dispersion of these local realities very strong in their territories , was based tactics to standardize the Chinese population with the guidelines of the party. Along with these measures has affected the local traditions, religious and banning the practice of age-old customs and traditions , which have sparked protests often resulted in violent acts . The areas of greatest opposition to the policy of Beijing to local causes are as Tibet and Xinjiang. While in the first case, the political struggle , as well as public demonstrations against Chinese rule , has been realized with the many suicides, not only of Buddhist monks , through the atrocious practice of burning alive , which has always allowed for a significant return in the press , especially the West , in the case of Xinjiang, which is a region where the Muslim religion is prevalent, the protests also implement with violent acts against the central institutions . In the first case the Chinese authorities are struggling more with the media effects that produce Western pressure , which in the prevention and combat of violent acts against their representatives in Tibet , that is, in accordance with the dictates of Buddhist prefers a non-violent struggle , still capable of creating serious problems for the central apparatus of Beijing. In Xinjiang , there is , however, a long history of terrorist acts , which have the purpose of separatism from China. The region is inhabited by ethnic Uighurs of which are Muslims believe and speak a language derived from Turkish . China has acted against this population echoing the usual scheme , which provides for both the armed repression , that the refusal to practice their religion , were banned prayers in public, very serious act for Islamic believers , and has also acted on uses of the community , such as , forbidding women to wear the veil . The activism of Xinjiang is a source of concern for China , which is considered very high presence in the region of what are called terrorists. Beijing has added some international agreements recently signed with India and Pakistan collaboration in the fight against terrorism, where terrorists intend for its population Uighur activists , who are fighting for the independence of Xinjiang. The methods of the attack on Red Square, so they could call their own practices of Islamic terrorism, which is considered the most probable track also by investigators Chinese . With this increase in the level of confrontation , that you tried to obscure , closing the area and not by leaking news, China is ahead of the crucial questions about the possible need to revise its strategy in the way on how to deal with drives for independence , they are subject to their own regions. Continue to insist in the repression seems, at the moment, the wrong choice , as well as the strategy of the loser seems to attempt to standardize these areas , stifling traditions . On the other hand, the regime does not want to convey political dissent a sign of weakness , could be construed as a softer attitude . For the Beijing authorities it is a question difficult to answer , but which must involve a more intensive use of the policy instrument rather than to the police.