... be a challenge for New Delhi in SCO, particularly if the organisation morphs into an anti-U.S. grouping, yet the opportunity could be to leverage better ties with each big power to improve ties with others in this illustrative quadrilateral. Notably, India has improved its links will all SCO members, with the exception of Pakistan, in the last two years. This highlights the potential to reset great power relations with both Russia and China, with cooperation and not confrontation being the pivot of regional strategic orientation. Notably, the Wuhan spirit of cooperative engagement has seen even China adopt a fairly neutral position on India’s retaliation against Pakistan in response ...
... and for its positioning on the world stage in its new and expanded composition. This was due to significant deepening of the SCO’s geopolitical dimension following the accession of India and Pakistan last year, whose leaders first took part in the organization’s activities at the Qingdao summit. As a result of the expansion, the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation has become the world’s largest association, the global nature of which Russian President Vladimir Putin referred to in an
interview
with the China Media Group on June 6, 2018.
Against this background, the detailed Declaration adopted at the summit emphasized that the ...
... favourable than that of the SCO (especially considering the fact that the latter has now been joined by the strategic antipodes of India and Pakistan). In fact, many of the security issues in the region will continue to be resolved bilaterally rather than multilaterally.
So, it turns out that the continuing institutional weakness of the SCO, coupled with its extremely broad mandate and the erosion of the Russia–China core through the adoption of new members can transform the organization into a suitcase without a handle: something too ...
... basic foundation of the relationship remains strong. A rising India would be a valuable partner of Russia in Asia and beyond
Kanwal Sibal
Not enough critical evaluation ... ... certain stability to the relationship, it has also constricted its scope. At the state level the two countries have recognised that ... ... engagement with the US is not at its expense. Russia’s overtures to Pakistan, especially in the military field, are construed in India ... ... confusion. The fact that Pakistan has begun to tout a Pakistan–China–Russia axis against an India–US axis in the region speaks ...
... new alliances are emerging and the global order is in a flux. Indian so-called strategic partnership with the U.S is an example ... ... has latched on to Washington’s weakness to contain a rising China and resurgent Russia. In order to gain balance in Asia-Pacific region, the U.... ... Owing to this, New Delhi exercises substantial leverage over Moscow’s foreign policy. China and Russia have exercised ... ... that India may revert to its so-called policy of non-alignment.Pakistan believes that the simultaneous inclusion of Pakistan and ...
... because realized it can better carry out its plans for the Silk Road Economic Belt through bilateral means. This is the result of Russia blocking further development of the economic aspects of the SCO.
There is also concerns that disputes between Pakistan and India will bring the organization’s work to a standstill. The most likely flashpoints are Kashmir, where part of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor is being constructed, or conflict over the disputed parts of the Sino-Indian border. Even with ...
... the same time searching for responses to new threats to peace and security. To discuss these and other matters, we met with SCO Secretary General Rashid Alimov on the sidelines of the conference
"Russia-China: toward a New Quality of Bilateral Relations."
This year the SCO is turning fifteen. How would you define its main ... ... paramount significance were the SCO decisions taken at its 2015 summit in Ufa on the launch of the procedure for admission of India and Pakistan. The status of Belarus was elevated from partner to observer. More partners were invited, among them Azerbaijan, Armenia,...
