How SCO Contributes to Security in Eurasia
... initiative in the Asia-Pacific region), but this mission of the SCO has not become decisive for the Chinese leadership. Like Russia, China approaches security issues on the SCO platform more from the perspective of bilateral interaction. Beijing sees consensus ... ... blurring the SCO’s regional security functionality means that one cannot always see a clear boundary between the SCO and the CSTO, especially since a number of countries, including Russia, are members of both structures. Moreover, if we take the Central Asian track, it is the CSTO that remains the real guarantor of high-level security for the countries of the region in ...