The SCO will be able to claim the status of not only the largest, but also the most influential union in Eurasia
The G7 summit in Quebec (Canada) and the SCO summit in Qingdao (China) took place at almost exactly the same time and once again clearly demonstrated the ever growing multipolarity of global and trans-regional development. However, while the Group of Seven meeting took a step backwards of sorts – or, put simply,...
... two projects are in no way fully compatible. In the end, there can be only one winner, and the loser shall be relegated to the fate of being a redundant historical player in the evolution of the Eurasian continent.
Indo-Pacific, Quad, and Containing China
Andrey Kortunov:
SCO: The Cornerstone Rejected by the Builders of a New Eurasia?
The term Indo-Pacific has entered geopolitics via biogeography, which studies the patterns of geographical distribution and the distribution of animals, plants, and ...
... of the SCO may consist in the role of integrator for the efforts of numerous players in the Eurasian political arena
Less than a month remains until the next summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO), which will take place in Qingdao, China on June 9 and 10. The event is already being touted by the media and official figures of the participating countries as one of the most important international events of the year. All the more so because it will mark the first time that the six ...
... anti-Westernism a variable — its most enthusiastic exponent (apart from President Vladimir Putin) is a leadership group within the Valdai Discussion Club. This organization will hold a
conference
in Shanghai on 25–6 April, with the title of “Russia and China: Contemporary Development Challenges.”
Igor Ivanov:
Russia’s Post-Election Foreign Policy: New Challenges, New Horizons
One of the conference sessions concerns ‘Greater Eurasia’, which is described as “Russia's most important geostrategic ...
... Central Asian Response
While Western media have somehow snubbed the event, the Chinese mega-plan has the potential to be a game-changer in world politics, and not only in the terms of economic and infrastructure development. The overall expenditure for OBOR would be in the range of $ 150-200 billion; the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) alone would cost $ 57 billion. Harbours, airports, high-speed railways, pipelines, free economic zones are springing up all around Asia, Europe, and Africa. Pakistan plays a key role since it connects the terrestrial ...
... regional trade. At the same time, his argument continues, this creates opportunities for countries within central Asia to benefit more under a friendly environment and through trade-enabled regional value chains, (Saroj K Jha, 2015.) as proposed by China’s OBOR initiative.
Given China’s increasing vital interests in the region, the Belt and the Road strategy has become the core of its Eurasian policy of building an overland route.
Tracking the SREB
The SREB is not a single corridor, but rather, it has ...
