... political and economic structures enjoyed undeniable superiority.
Ivan Timofeev:
Eurasian Security Architecture: Five Questions and Five Answers
In reality, European security began to splinter along multiple lines.
First
, NATO’s eastward enlargement. Moscow reacted with restraint to the accession of former Warsaw Pact allies and even the Baltic countries into the Alliance, particularly since it was not accompanied by the deployment of significant US or other major NATO contingents in the new member ...
... Kyrgyzstan, the financial sector, research institutes, and international organizations.
Fares Kilzie, founder and chairman of CREON Group, opened the forum with an analysis of the strategic role of metals and minerals from CIS and EAEU countries for SCO, APEC, and ASEAN states amid the new global energy landscape, data center (DC) development, and artificial intelligence.
Russia’s mining and metallurgical sectors, along with those of the CIS and EAEU, are entering the strategic arena amid sweeping ...
... Youth Action” Conference was held in Xi’an. The event was organized by the Institute of Russia, Eastern Europe and Central Asia of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (IREECA CASS) and Northwestern Polytechnical University, with support from the SCO China Committee on Good-Neighborliness, Friendship and Cooperation.
The organizers envisaged the conference as a platform for exploring how young people could become a driving force behind advancing the SCO’s development agenda and the “Shanghai ...
... discussion, special attention was paid to China's role in Southeast Asia and the Asia-Pacific region at large. Vietnamese experts also presented Hanoi's position on Russian‑Chinese initiatives in Eurasia and noted that deeper cooperation between Moscow and Beijing could significantly affect the relations of the pair with the ASEAN countries. In this context, Vietnam adheres to the balancing strategy and pursues cooperation with all priority partners.
Russian experts indicated Russia’s readiness ...
...
The parties exchanged views on the impact of secondary sanctions, tariff and non-tariff restrictions imposed by the United States and Western countries on the global economy. There is an obvious need to strengthen regional platforms, in particular the SCO, in order to overcome the negative trends in global cooperation caused by these measures. In this context, the global governance initiative put forward by Xi Jinping at the SCO summit in China in September 2025 was discussed as one of the approaches ...
... mega-events was unmistakable: Russia remains central to global peace, stability, and prosperity—not on the margins, but at the very heart of the emerging order
When two of the year’s biggest international events—the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Summit in Tianjin (Aug 31–Sept 1) and China’s Victory Day commemoration in Beijing (Sept 3)—unfolded back-to-back, one leader was at the center of attention. Beyond the host, President Xi Jinping, it was Russia’s President Vladimir Putin ...
... opens up new prospects for the development of states and mutually beneficial international cooperation.” The
opening paragraph
of the Tianjin declaration of the Council of Heads of State of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation breaks no new ground. SCO leaders
respond
to global political and economic shifts by consistently proposing initiatives aimed at conceptualizing and institutionalizing principles of interaction across Eurasian space under new conditions.
Igbal Guliyev, Maria Ginzburg:
The ...
Emerging powers will undoubtedly influence the shaping of future global governance structures and international mechanisms
For a very long time, the “Rules-Based International Order” has remained the West’s choicest phrase to denote a global governance order under the US leadership, built on liberal values, capitalist democracy and global cooperation. However, behind this persuasive rhetoric is a system which has been viewed by many non-western countries as a geopolitical instrument to advance...
The SCO summit shows how the world is shifting away from the West
Historical anniversaries often provide the backdrop for diplomacy to become spectacle. This week’s Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit in Tianjin was deliberately staged ahead ...
... issues expected at summit, says ambassador
Russian Ambassador to China Igor Morgulov has reaffirmed Russia's readiness to work with China to strengthen the multifaceted potential and global stature of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization ahead of the SCO Summit, which will be held in Tianjin on Sunday and Monday.
In an interview with China Daily, Morgulov said that leaders of SCO member states will hold a "thorough and frank discussion on pressing global and regional issues", with a focus ...
