| The Philippines has long been a country under the threat of terrorism.Since the 1990 s,local terrorist organizations in the Philippines and branches of international terrorist organizations such as Al-Qaida have gradually carried out activities in the South of the Philippines,which reached a climax in the late 1990 s.Terrorist organizations in the Philippines have been less active since the September 11 attacks,as the Philippine government has stepped up efforts to combat terrorism.After the rise of the Islamic State in 2014,some local terrorist organizations in the Philippines have declared their allegiance to the Islamic State and carried out several terrorist attacks in the name of the branch of the Islamic State in the Philippines,with the intention of establishing a province belonging to the Islamic State in the southern Philippines.The three decades of terrorist activities have had multiple negative effects on the domestic political stability and economic development of the Philippines.However,the anti-terrorism cooperation conducted by the Philippines with the United States and China after 9/11 has also contributed to the development of the Philippines-US security relations and China-Philippines relations in the new century.At the same time,the major terrorist attack in the Philippines,such as the "Marawi Conflict",has also exerted a certain influence on the political,economic and diplomatic development of the Philippines at the national and regional levels due to its huge destruction.Since the beginning of the new century,successive Philippine governments have attached great importance to counter-terrorism.Since Arroyo took office in 2001,the Philippine government has set up several counter-terrorism functions,including the Cabinet Oversight Committee on Internal Security and the Anti-Terrorism Task Force,and promulgated two anti-terrorism laws,the Human Security Act No.9372 and the Counter-Terrorism Act 2020,No.11479.Philippines has formulated anti-terrorism policies that focus on military strikes and peaceful negotiations,adopted both "hard" and "soft" anti-terrorism measures,and carried out anti-terrorism cooperation with the United States,China,Australia and other countries as well as ASEAN,APEC and other international organizations.The Philippine government’s counter-terrorism work since the new century is made "kill terrorists","improving the socio-economic environment in the terrorist breeding areas of the southern Philippines",such as effective,but there are also "anti-terrorism policy incoherence","poor functional departments coordination on terror" and "effective legal tool for fighting terrorism remains inadequate" and so on. |
