U.s. And China On Anti Terrorism War - 3623 Words

Final Paper INS 540 Student: Qian (Thalassa) Huang Instructor: Dr. E.M Restrepo The Cooperation In Intelligence Sharing Between the U.S. and China on Anti-terrorism War Abstract: With the globalization of the terrorism activities, it is necessary and urgent for the U.S. to seek for cooperation in intelligence sharing with countries other than the past allies such the UK and Europe. From 2013 China has started to establish activities fighting with the terrorism after being attacked by two horrible terrorism assaults. Besides, China has always had a close economic and trade relationships with the U.S. To look forward joining hands with China in intelligence sharing on anti-terrorism war based the existing coordination is possible and†¦show more content†¦With the rapidly moving on technology and the Internet especially the social media, terrorism activities have been globalized and new challenges on anti-terrorism war occurred. Equipped with the social network, the terrorists do not have to be physically gathered since they could get connection and even plan one attack via Internet and social media. It is obvious this is a low-risk and low-co st way to organize terrorism activities. This horrifying trend makes cooperative system across the borders more urgent and necessary. The U.S. has entirely been aware of the domestic terrorism activities from the experience of 9/11 and it has been involved and contributed a lot in the global anti-terrorism war. The U.S. has assembled a global coalition on intelligence sharing network with a number of countries such as UK, Japan and Australia. The U.S. intelligence agencies work at expanding intelligence gathering sources and channels, including cooperation and hostile intentions of people and trade cooperation. Commonly there are three ways to share the intelligence: firstly, a country could collect data in crucial areas and analyze them independently, then exchange the processed data with the U.S. for other data. However, under this condition the U.S. has to do exchange service in return to gaining the information, such as to provide training or visiting to this country, which might incur confidentiality issues. Beside,