Shanghai Cooperation Organization and Sino-Russian Relations under Perspective of Security (A Case Study of CARs)

Abstract

The Paper focuses the security aspect of SCO and elaborates the Sino-Russian relations with special reference to security interests in Central Asia. It also highlights mutual relations from cold war to post cold war and post 9/11 2001 that brought both States close to each other on their commonality of respective interests in the region. The part of paper also explains the two major and dominant actors of SCO who developed their relations in the context of regional organization. Furthermore, it tells about the dominant issue of the region with special reference to counter terrorism, its evolution, developments and consequences. By analyzing the Trans border threats this study also elaborates that how the member nations developed a unanimous policy for containing of international terrorism that centered in the region of Central Asia and hurts the interests of the SCO member states. To counter terrorism in the region SCO states adopted multiple strategies for example, military exercises, confidence building measures among the member states, arm trade and reducing game between the East and West of Central Asian republics. The last part of this chapter consists of the Chinese political and military interests in the region of CARS for which the SCO has been organized and developed.

Keywords: Sino-Russian Relations, Security Issue, SCO and RATS Performance, Politics in CARS, Sino-Pak Relations and SCO