"Is the SCO Emerging as Eastern Counterweight to NATO?" Topic
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Tango01 | 31 Aug 2015 10:22 p.m. PST |
"As tensions between Russia and NATO continue to percolate along Europe's eastern periphery, another development has quietly emerged along the vast southern expanse of what was once the Kremlin's Soviet empire. Possibly due to the wrap-up of NATO's combat mission in Afghanistan last December, scant attention was paid in the West to an announcement in July that not only may have an effect on security issues in Afghanistan, but is edging ever closer to the trans-Atlantic Alliance's doorstep in Asia Minor. At the 15th summit meeting of the six-member Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) on July 9, it was announced that initiation procedures would begin for two countries with current observer status to become full members. Those two countries are India and Pakistan. With their membership expected to become active by the 2016 summit in Uzbekistan, the SCO is about to expand the vast territory and population under its membership umbrella as well as the organization's geopolitical heft. The addition of two new members will mark the steady evolution of a grouping that originally began as the "Shanghai Five" in 1996. That grouping served largely as a forum for addressing border disputes lingering from the Soviet era…" Full article here link Amicalement Armand |
49mountain | 01 Sep 2015 2:29 p.m. PST |
India, Pakistan, and China. They just love each other.??? |
Mako11 | 01 Sep 2015 2:51 p.m. PST |
I can't see the Chinese, Indians, and/or Pakistanis really being allies, given their border issues, and historical differences. Of course, things change, sometimes. Might be a bit like the ill-fated German and Soviet arrangement in early WWII, before Hitler attacked Russia. |
cwlinsj | 01 Sep 2015 2:54 p.m. PST |
Representing 1/2 of the world's population, the SCO's prime reason for existence is to help the members hold on to power internally. As a economic cooperative, it wishes to challenge the Dollar and Euro currencies. Beside cooperation on fighting terrorism (any body challenging their political rule) there is not yet a great amount of cooperation. Counterweight to NATO? Most members exist outside of Europe. Besides, NATO members commit troops under one supreme commander. -Anyone believe that Russia, China, India and Pakistan would allow their armies to be commanded by each other? |
zoneofcontrol | 01 Sep 2015 7:23 p.m. PST |
As the old saying goes; The enemy of my enemy is sorta, kinda not my enemy. |
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