It’s China’s turn to face transnational terrorism threats

This commentary is published in coordination with the 2025 Global Security Forum, of which Defense One is a media partner.One of the less-heralded features of the Global War on Terror—roughly, the two decades that followed the 9/11 attacks—were the conversations that the United States shared with Russia and China about counterterrorism. Though Moscow and Beijing were targets of Sunni jihadists such as al-Qaeda and the Islamic State, there was always some skepticism in Washington abou