China's chief of police said Beijing would share information...

China's chief of police said Beijing would share information with the United States in the most concrete offer to date of what it would do to help a U.S.-led global war on "terrorism".
Speaking at a conference between Asian and European police officials, Minister of Public Security Jia Chunwang said China and other representatives at the forum were committed to battle terrorism "by all means".
But Beijing has said little about what kind of help it would be willing to offer, and demanded U.S. support for its own fight against "terrorism and separatists" - meaning groups like Muslim separatists and Taiwan independence activists.
Experts at the Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM) symposium on international crime-fighting applauded China's commitment to boost police cooperation and exchanges, but were sceptical about what concrete help China could offer a U.S.-led war on terrorism.
"I think cooperation between police agencies is not so difficult," said France's special ambassador for cooperation against organised crime and corruption, Pierre Charasse.
"The difficulties come from legal systems, for example extradition or deportation of people."
Differing laws on capital punishment and asylum were particularly thorny issues, he said, adding that European countries did not administer the death penalty while most Asian countries and parts of the United States did.
"We have no right to deport or extradite someone if he can be found guilty and get the death penalty in his own country," Charasse told Reuters. "Ultimately, we need to have some judgment in one country or in another country."Robert Black, a terrorism specialist and law professor at Scotland's University of Edinburgh, said differing definitions of terrorism could become a big problem in cooperating with China.
"It is very difficult to enter into real cooperative ventures with countries who think that you are giving refuge to people that they classify as terrorists and now you want them to help you against people that you classify as terrorists," he said.
Emanuele Marotta, Italy's police officer in charge of coordinating international projects, said the main reason to include China in a global anti-terrorism effort would be to make the world's most populous nation feel included and respected.
"Let's say that the first impact is of high psychological value, then there is the possibility to share information with them," he said.