The Challenge of Terrorism and War on Terror: Chinese Response

Chinese Response- the Global impact

Setting aside China’s own national interests, Beijing’s policy has not helped much in genuinely dealing with the problem of terrorism, addressing its root causes and moving towards a just global system. As a result, even after the war, spanning over 10 years, which practically has China’s consent too, and involving the loss of over a quarter million of human lives and trillions of dollars, the question still remains: Is the present world a safer place than the world in 2001? And that, without real peace in Afghanistan and consequently in a large part of Asia, can sustainable peace, progress and development be expected in all these areas? Considering the overall human development, another important question is that what would have the present world been like if trillions of dollars, spent on war craft and ammunitions, had been spent on the eradication of poverty, illiteracy and disease? Wouldn’t it have been a much better place if the efforts had been made for cooperation on human miseries?

Though probably the extraordinary attention given to security issues and the tremendous amount of money, spent in targeting the ‘terrorists’, have put a stop to the terrorists’ attacks for the time being, are there fewer threats of terrorism than before? Attached to it is the question that, whether the world can progress towards peace and development just by the abolition of few “terrorists” while ignoring the real causes and motives that engender terrorism? Collateral damage apart which breeds a new lot of ‘terrorists’, it is obvious that in the existence of motives, even after the annihilation of front line terrorists, many new groups with the same cause will always be ready to take their place. And the most important question is: if the terrorists’ acts were caused due to the absence of confidence in the global system and institutions, have the WoT and its results created a hopeful situation about it?