In the wake of Islamic terrorism in France, it's opportune to remind people of the double standard of the West towards terrorism. Whatever is bad for China is good for the West. Latter has been actively stoking separatism and terrorism in Xinjiang
2/resulting in thousands of terrorist acts and hundreds of human casualties before 2014. When China proceeded to enact its first anti-terrorism law in 2016, it encountered violent opposition from the West, exactly like what happened re. Hong Kong National Security Law. Western
3/condemnation accused China of mass surveillance and violation of personal data freedom, because of the clause subjecting China's social media and telecommunication companies to cooperation with the government. Irony is that this is the standard practice in the West.
4/ All US social media turn over data upon request from FBI/CIA, even though backdoors already exist (to the extent of linking NSA servers to those of Internet companies) allowing US government unrestricted worldwide mass surveillance. In the case of China, a much
5/ milder version of government data access has become authoritarian surveillance..
Of course, China persisted and went ahead with China's anti-terrorism law.
Of course, China persisted and went ahead with China's anti-terrorism law.
6/ Thanks to China's laws and other concrete measures, Xinjiang Uighur region and the whole China have been terrorism free for the last four years.
7/ Meanwhile the spy network five eyes openly put pressure on WhatsApp to give them backdoor to their encryption. 
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