plawolf
Lieutenant General
To expand on Wolf's post, the question we need to ask is, what is the objective behind terror attacks against Chinese targets?
While China is expanding its economic influence, it is nowhere near high on the priority list for organizations like al-Qaeda and ISIS, who are focused on creating an Islamic power in the Middle East.
So the only people with a stake against China are the Uighur and Tibetan separatists. The Tibetans do not generally have resources or motivation to conduct terror attacks Chinese targets. The Uighurs, on the other hand, do receive support from the aforementioned terrorist organizations, so they are the top priority on China's terror list.
Therefore, China's responses must be targeted toward those Uighur terror cells, with the objective of stamping out terror attacks in Chinese borders first and foremost.
That is what China is doing, but the same lot who inspire, if not co-ordinate, terrorist attacks spins that as somehow China trampling Uighur rights and freedoms. As if carrying out terrorist attacks is somehow supposed to be a human right.
I fear that unless China goes after and take out the financiers, recruiters, cheerleaders and other enablers of terrorists within China, all China is doing is addressing the symptoms of the problem without tackling the cause.
It would be like America trying to fight terrorism by only targeting terrorists once they are on US soil.
Often, by that stage, it is all but too late to stop the attacks.