BEIJING: The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) launched a jointonline anti-terrorism exercise in China, in which competent authorities ofeight SCO member states simulated a complete crackdown against onlineterrorist propaganda amid rising cybersecurity challenges.
The exercise held in Xiamen, East China’s Fujian Province, set a scenariowhere an international terrorist organization spread information ofterrorism, separatism and extremism through the internet, including instantchat groups and social media platforms, in SCO member states, to recruitnew members, gather funds, purchase weapons and plan terror activities,which intensified terror attacks and threatened regional security,according to report published by Global Times.
The exercise coordinated competent authorities of each SCO member state,who started investigating cases in their countries, gathering informationon the terrorists’ organization, member identities, and their locations,before launching a concentrated capture mission and cracking down theorganizations’ secret members hiding across SCO member states once for all.
During the drill, cyber anti-terrorist experts sit in front of computers,deploying a variety of technical measures in eight separated “combatzones,” each for one member state.
If the drill was to be real, these “combat zones” will be thousands ofkilometers away, in each member state’s territories, sharing information inreal-time.
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This is the third time such exercise has taken place. The past two editionswere held in October 2015 and December 2017.
Pakistan, Kazakhstan, China, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan andIndia are full members of SCO.
