Biased judgments sabotage fight against terrorism

With international efforts to combat the Islamic State terrorist group achieving decisive success in Syria and Iraq, the world has a hard-won opportunity to push forward the fight against terrorism and extremism. But that requires countries strive to work together and show zero-tolerance to terrorists and their extremist ideologies.

Which was the call for action that Wu Haitao, China's deputy permanent representative to the United Nations, made on Monday. His words should not fall on deaf ears. Instead, they should rally greater international consensus that concerted efforts are needed to eliminate terrorism and make members of the international community fully recognize the threat of all terrorist forces, including the so-called East Turkestan Islamic Movement.

In recent years, the East Turkestan Islamic Movement has plotted and carried out a number of terrorist attacks in China, most frequently in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region.