By Ankit Panda
The Pakistan question looms large in China-India counter-terrorism discussions.
Earlier this month, on November 4, representatives from India and China met in New Delhi for the seventh round of their bilateral counter-terrorism consultation. The dialogue was the first since India’s Bharatiya Janata Party-led government came to power in elections in May 2014.
According to The Hindu, the Indian delegation requested that China share its counter-terrorism practices with India. Specifically, New Delhi requested information on how China handles terrorist threats in its restive western province of Xinjiang, where Uyghur separatist militants regularly operate.
“China shared its experience of how it curtailed jihadi activities in Xinjiang province and the steps taken by it to bring in normalcy in the region. We also asked China to help us understand their cyber security network, which is one of the best in the world,” said a senior official who spoke to The Hindu.
Counter-terrorism has received high-level attention in the India-China bilateral relations recently. Though this was the first meeting of the specialized consultative group on counter-terrorism, both Chinese President Xi Jinping and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi emphasized counter-terrorism cooperation during consecutive state visits (Xi to India in September 2014 and Modi to China in May 2015).
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