Table 5 Major Multilateral Counter-Terrorism Treaties Signed by China
Treaty | Date of Signature | Effective Date | Participation or Statement by China |
Agreement on Quadrilateral Cooperation and Coordination Mechanism in Counter Terrorism by the Ministry of Defense/ Armed Forces/ Military of Afghanistan, China, Pakistan, and Tajikistan | Aug. 2017 | Aug. 2017 | Signed in Aug. 2017, effective in China |
Convention of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization Against Terrorism | Jun. 2009 | Jan. 2012 | Signed in Jun. 2009, ratified in Dec. 2014 |
Agreement on Cooperation in Combating Illicit Trafficking in Arms, Ammunition and Explosives between the Governments of the Member States of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization | Aug. 2008 | May 2010 | Approved by the State Council in May 2012, instrument of approval deposited in Jul. 2012, effective in China |
Agreement on the Procedure for Organizing and Conducting Joint Anti-Terrorism Exercise within Territories of Member States of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization | Aug. 2008 | Nov. 2013 | Approved in Jun. 2013, effective in China since Nov. 2013 |
Cooperation Agreement in the Sphere of Identifying and Cutting off the Channels Used by the Individuals Involved in Terrorist, Separatist and Extremist Activities to Enter the Shanghai Cooperation Organization Member States | Jun. 2006 | Nov. 2008 | Approved by the State Council in May 2012, instrument of approval deposited in Jul. 2012, effective in China |
Table 6 Major Joint Exercises and Training by the PLA and
the PAP with Foreign Counterparts Since 2012
No. | States/ | Codename | Location and Time |
1 | Belarus | United Shield-2017 Joint Anti-Terrorism Training | Held in Minsk, Belarus in Jul. 2017 |
2 | Germany | Joint Rescue-2016 Joint Medical Exercise | Held in Chongqing, China in 2016 |
3 | India | Hand in Hand Anti-Terrorism Joint Training | Held in Sichuan, China in Nov. 2013; in Maharashtra, India in Nov. 2014; in Yunnan, China in Oct. 2015; in Maharashtra, India in Nov. 2016; in Sichuan, China in Dec. 2018 |
4 | Malaysia | Peace and Friendship Joint Military Exercises | Tabletop exercise held in Malaysia in Dec. 2014; in Malaysia in Sept. 2015; in Malaysia in Nov. 2016 |
5 | Pakistan | Friendship Joint | Held in Ningxia, China in Dec. 2015; at National Counter Terrorism Center Pabbi, Pakistan in Oct. 2016 |
Eagle/Shaheen Joint Training | A total of 6 training sessions held in China and Pakistan from 2013 to 2018 | ||
6 | Russia | Joint Sea Exercises | Held in the Yellow Sea waters near Qingdao in Apr. 2012; in Peter the Great Gulf in Jul. 2013; in the north maritime and air space of the East China Sea to the east of Yangtze River Estuary in May 2014; in the east of the maritime and air space of the Mediterranean in May 2015; in Peter the Great Gulf, off the coast of Vladivostok, and the maritime and air space of Sea of Japan in Aug. 2015; in Zhanjiang and the east of the maritime and air space of Zhanjiang in Sep. 2016; in the Baltiysk, St. Petersburg and southeast Baltic Sea in Jul. 2017; in Vladivostok and the designated area between Peter the Great Gulf and the south Okhotsk Sea in Sep. 2017 |
Aerospace Security | Held in Russia in May 2016, and in China in Dec. 2017 | ||
7 | Saudi Arabia | Explore-2016 Joint | Held in China in Oct. 2016 |
8 | Sri Lanka | Silk Road Cooperation-2015 Joint Counter Terrorism Training for Special | Held in Colombo, Sri Lanka in Jun. 2015 |
9 | Tajikistan | Cooperation-2016 Joint | Held in Badakhshan, Tajikistan in Oct. 2016 |
10 | Thailand | Falcon Strike Joint Training | Held in Thailand in Nov. 2015; in Thailand in Aug. 2017; in Thailand in Sep. 2018 |
11 | UK | Non-Combatant Evacuation Operation Desktop Exercises | Held in Nanjing in 2016; in London in 2017 |
12 | US | The US-China Disaster | Held in Beijing, Kunming and Chengdu in 2012; in Hawaii in 2013; in Guangzhou and Haikou in 2015; in Seattle in 2015; in Kunming in 2016; in Portland in 2017; in Nanjing in 2018 |
13 | Vietnam | China-Vietnam Joint Naval Patrols in the Beibu Gulf | Held in the shared fishing zone in the Beibu Gulf for 13 times from 2012 to 2018 |
14 | Malaysia, | Peace and Friendship 2018 Joint Military Exercise | Held in Malaysia in Oct. 2018 by militaries of China, Malaysia and Thailand |
15 | ASEAN | Maritime Exercise-2018 | Held in Zhanjiang and the maritime and air space to the east in Oct. 2018 |
16 | EU | Cooperation-2018.10.EU Joint Medical Exercise | Held in the west Gulf of Aden in Oct. 2018 |
17 | SCO | Peace Mission Joint | Held in Khujand, Tajikistan in Jun. 2012; in Zhurihe Training Base in Inner Mongolia, China, in Aug. 2014; in the Edelweiss Training Area in Balykchy, Kyrgyzstan, in Sep. 2016; in Chebarkul, Chelyabinsk, Russia, in Aug. 2018 |
(军控协会)
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