Since the 11 September attacks in 2001 , the PRC government has strengthened its involvement in multilateral and bilateral counter-terrorism efforts . As a result of these efforts , some Uyghur separatist movements have been labelled as terrorist groups by the United Nations and U.S. Department of State . There have been allegations that the Chinese government has been applying charges of terrorism in an inconsistent and sometimes politically motivated manner . China has since embraced America 's " Global War on Terror . " The concept of terrorism , as it evolved and is understood in the West , did not exist in imperial China . In that setting , political criminality took the form of violence against the emperor , and was viewed as harmful as it induced fear and led to " chaos . " With the exception of " good " political violence against rulers whose lack of propriety and virtue resulted in loss of the mandate of heaven , violence was seen as contrary to human nature and the Tao . Kam Wong argues that the dynamics of imperial China form the basis for contemporary Chinese understandings of terrorism
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