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China showed determination and confidence in anti-terrorism, as well as the improvement of China\u2019s emergency counter-terrorism capability, a Chinese expert said after military media released a clip of China\u2019s seven-day counter-terrorism exercise in a grueling cold desert in Northwest China\u2019s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region.<\/p>\n
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The clip, released by js7tv.cn, a website affiliated with the People\u2019s Liberation Army (PLA), introduced the intensive cross-nights exercise participated in by an elite special force contingent of the People\u2019s Armed Police in Gobi desert in Xinjiang.<\/p>\n
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Aiming at enhancing the combat skills of soldiers under grueling conditions in a simulated realistic environment, soldiers finished a range of tasks including positioning and searching, combat casualty care, squad tactics and crawling in the daytime, as well as physical training features like a 10-kilometer fully armed raid and carrying 30-kilogram loads.<\/p>\n
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In the night operation, soldiers were divided into three squads in charge of reconnaissance, sniping and assault.<\/p>\n
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Under the cover of flash bang, each squad broke into the target building at the same time and successfully neutralized two imaginary \u201cviolent terrorists.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Zhu Yongbiao, assistant director of Lanzhou University\u2019s Institute of Central Asia Studies, told the Global Times<\/em> that Xinjiang, with a complex religion and ethnic situation, has always been at the forefront of China\u2019s combat against terrorism, adding difficulty to anti-terrorism works.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n According to incomplete data, from 1990 to 2016, Xinjiang endured thousands of terrorist attacks that killed large numbers of innocent people and hundreds of police officers.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Zhao said that the drill shows Xinjiang\u2019s determination and confidence in anti-terrorism, as well as the improvement of the region\u2019s counter-terrorism capability in an emergency.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n In early December, CGTN, China\u2019s state broadcaster, released a one-hour-long documentary, Fighting Terrorism in Xinjiang<\/em>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n It begins with explicating the formative years when extremism began evolving in Xinjiang, followed by the grueling fight against terrorism. It also illustrated the interactions of terrorists with overseas forces accompanied by audio and video evidence. The documentary winds up highlighting international cooperation on anti-terrorism.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n According to the white paper released by the Information Office of the State Council, no terrorism-related incidents have taken place in Xinjiang for nearly three years.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Source\uff1aGlobal Times<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By Wang Qi China...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20797"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20798,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20797\/revisions\/20798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}