The Role of the SCO in Ensuring Water and Energy Security in Central Asia: Opportunities for Russia – China Cooperation

... second step is to find common ground for exchanging experience and scaling up national practices by identifying opportunities within an inter-state and, in particular, a multilateral framework. In terms of economic and social cooperation, water and energy security and stable state development in the region could prove to be this very common ground. These are the factors that will allow Moscow and Beijing, together with the region’s countries, to use their experiences and apply pre-emptive actions in the Central Asian space to ensure “sustainable security”. As in many other cases, political will of the participating countries and state support are key when it comes to implementing such initiatives. State support can be enhanced by involving platforms ...