Central Asia’s Waking Giant
The Shanghai Cooperation Organization brings together almost half the world’s population, several members own nuclear weapons, many are big energy suppliers, and it includes some of the world’s fastest growing economies. But few outside Central Asia have heard much about it, and the West is missing an important opportunity by not engaging it.
THE HAGUE – The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) brings together almost half the world’s population, several members own nuclear weapons, many are big energy suppliers, and it includes some of the world’s fastest growing economies. Yet few outside Central Asia have heard much about it.