Belarus officially becomes SCO member
Kazakh President Tokayev announced Belarus’s decision to formally join the SCO. Belarus became the 10th official member of the SCO.
Eurasia
Prospects of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization
By Swaran Singh At the Shanghai Cooperation Organization Foreign Ministers’ Meeting in Goa, India, in
India- Uzbekistan Synergy at the SCO
Uzbekistan had actively supported India’s membership of the SCO, the Memorandum of Obligation of which was also signed under Uzbekistan’s presidency in the Tashkent Summit in June 2016.
Interview: After the Ukraine conflict, will Armenia step up partnership with India in weapons, trade and investments?
Dr. Mher Sahakyan is Director, China-Eurasia Council for Political and Strategic Research, Armenia. He was previously an AsiaGlobal Fellow, Asia Global Institute, University of Hong Kong. His most recent co-edited volume is China and Eurasia: Rethinking Cooperation and Contradictions in the Era of Changing World Order. Routledge, 2021.
Why India should be excited about the Samarkand SCO summit
India’s participation in the organization will also help keep it non-Western rather than anti-Western and a regional Eurasian organization, shorn of a bloc mentality.
Major diplomatic development in Central Asia
By Valentin Yakushik This week the attention of analysts is fixed on diplomatic developments in Central
“India needs to balance its ‘Connect Eurasia policy’ with its Act East Policy and Indo-Pacific Strategy”
As one of the most populous countries, one of the biggest economies with formidable military power, India’s aspirations ought to be trans-continental and trans-oceanic
How Russia Can Maintain Equilibrium in the Post-Pandemic Bipolar World
To avoid becoming part of a Sino-centric power bloc and maintain international equilibrium, which is critically important to Russia’s status and self-image, Moscow must reduce its dependence on China by fostering its relations with other large economic and financial players: primarily European countries, India, and Japan.
Case for separate Ladakh and rethinking India-China relations
The Union Territory (UT) status for Ladakh is a masterstroke in India’s long-term home and foreign policy. A counter strategy that India should be thinking now is to offer China an alternative transport, energy, trade and communication corridor originating from a port in Gujarat running across Northern India to connect Kashgar through Indus valley in Ladakh.