In today's Wall Street Journal, Brian Spegele, Jeremy Page, and James Areddy have identified the high level attention terrorism in China is starting to get.
[see China President Xi Vows to Crush Separatists After Xinjiang Attack at
http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702303948104579535302412634992?mg=reno64-wsj ]
This is the latest in a string of events that make the Boston Marathon bombing seem like an isolated incident. The attack in Xinjiang, and that in a train station in Kunming, by knife-wielding people killing at random, had as many casualties as Boston. [for a good article on this see Calum MacLeod's No Guns, just Knives: Chilling Details of 'China's 9/11'
[at http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2014/03/29/china-train-stabbing-kunming/6162803/ ]
Another incident in Beijing, with a car ramming into tourists, has raised other concerns about the adaptation of these groups to terror methods used elsewhere. It would make people anywhere wonder why their government could not stop this sort of thing. Police have been covering train stations and gatherings ever since these things started happening. What they have been able to do is find these folks, after the fact, and kill some of them, but they accomplish what they set out to do - get local populations to doubt the security they are being given.
We should probably consider that what we do in the U.S. to counter terrorism seems to be more successful than what China is doing. Clamping down on Muslims, making speeches, writing new legislation, making new rules, and putting more police on the street is probably not going to be very effective. They need to go after the people who fund these groups and steer them towards their targets.
The Chinese already point to Pakistan for the training and sanctuary given to them. [see China Urges Pakistan to expel Uighur Islamic Militants at http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-18276864 ] They need to do more. Terrorists aren't living without support from someone. Amazon books:
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