SCO members China, Russia, India, Iran and others gather around a fractured Eurasian table, symbolizing rivalry and a growing multipolar world.

🌏 The SCO at 25: Rifts, Rivalries—and Why This Non-Western Super-Group Still Matters

The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation has turned 25—and what an unusual geopolitical club it has become. China, Russia, India, Pakistan, Iran and other Eurasian powers frequently disagree, yet continue showing up. The SCO isn't an Eastern NATO. Its importance may instead lie in something subtler: giving enormous non-Western powers a table of their own.

 

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