Shanghai Cooperation Organization is not an anti-Western alliance
Shanghai Cooperation Organization is not an anti-Western alliance
The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), after more than a decade since its inception, merits increasing attentions from the world and meanwhile different explanations of the objective and main agenda of this organization are heatedly debated and evaluated. One of them is the sensational argument that it is an anti-Western alliance which reflects a reasonable suspicion given China and Russia’s leading role in it. However, it is more convincing that the SCO is only a regional, multilateral cooperation organization with an anti-Western face. What this essay strives to prove is that the SCO dose have an anti-Western face but this face is only one of its multiple faces, given the organization is inherently inspired by mutual benefits of cooperation and constrained by its members’ diversified interests coupled with potential conflicts and competition, and it is inappropriate to regard the anti-Western aspect as the dominant agenda or objective of the organization with a neglect of its inherent contradictions among its members. In the first place, the SCO’s anti-Western inclination is recognized and assessed. Then, its member states’ divergent interests and opinions are discussed to prove its inherent remote possibility to form an anti-Western based, cohesive alliance which poses practical threats to the West especially America. Finally, after proving anti-Western as one of its faces, other objectives of the organization are displayed and their practical significance is discussed and highlighted. In addition, because of the lack of a clear concept of “anti-Western”, anti-American in this essay is more focused on because America is a prominent representative and leader of the west.
The SCO has an explicit anti-American record. Two prominent examples are the consecutive responses to civil unrests in Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan in 2005 and the turmoil in Kyrgyzstan in 2010 inspired by color
The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), after more than a decade since its inception, merits increasing attentions from the world and meanwhile different explanations of the objective and main agenda of this organization are heatedly debated and evaluated. One of them is the sensational argument that it is an anti-Western alliance which reflects a reasonable suspicion given China and Russia’s leading role in it. However, it is more convincing that the SCO is only a regional, multilateral cooperation organization with an anti-Western face. What this essay strives to prove is that the SCO dose have an anti-Western face but this face is only one of its multiple faces, given the organization is inherently inspired by mutual benefits of cooperation and constrained by its members’ diversified interests coupled with potential conflicts and competition, and it is inappropriate to regard the anti-Western aspect as the dominant agenda or objective of the organization with a neglect of its inherent contradictions among its members. In the first place, the SCO’s anti-Western inclination is recognized and assessed. Then, its member states’ divergent interests and opinions are discussed to prove its inherent remote possibility to form an anti-Western based, cohesive alliance which poses practical threats to the West especially America. Finally, after proving anti-Western as one of its faces, other objectives of the organization are displayed and their practical significance is discussed and highlighted. In addition, because of the lack of a clear concept of “anti-Western”, anti-American in this essay is more focused on because America is a prominent representative and leader of the west.
The SCO has an explicit anti-American record. Two prominent examples are the consecutive responses to civil unrests in Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan in 2005 and the turmoil in Kyrgyzstan in 2010 inspired by color