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Shanghai Cooperation Organisation

The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation is a key Eurasian security, development, and economic bloc that includes full members Belarus, China, Russia, India, Iran, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan. It also has 16 partner nations, and is developing as a significant Eurasian power bloc. Explore business opportunities within the SCO economic framework. Analysis of trade facilitation, joint projects, and economic cooperation among member states for regional business expansion.

Featured March 15, 2025

Russia, China & Iran To Cooperate More In BRICS, Shanghai Cooperation Organisation Amidst Nuclear Talks

China, Russia and Iran have agreed to boost coordination within the BRICS and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), the three countries’ diplomats said in a statement following a meeting in Beijing to discuss Iran’s nuclear issues. China’s Deputy Foreign Minister Ma Zhaoxu stated that “The parties agreed to support and strengthen coordination on multilateral platforms […]

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Featured March 14, 2025

Russia Sets Up Supply Chain Reach To Laos

Russia’s FESCO transport company is launching intermodal container transport to landlocked Laos in southeast Asia, via the Vietnamese port of Da Nang as part of its efforts to expand logistics operations into the region. The transit time for deliveries between Russia and Laos via Vladivostok and Da Nang is about 35 days. Loading and dispatch […]

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February 28, 2025

Russia-China Security Talks In Beijing: US Mineral Plans In Ukraine, the Arctic and SCO 2025 Summit

Russian Security Council Secretary Sergey Shoigu, and China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi have held talks in Beijing, with Shoigu also meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping. The two sides discussed bilateral issues as concerns global and Asian security, in addition to global and regional conflicts and geopolitics. Ukraine Sticking Points These have come following Russian […]

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February 28, 2025

Russia-Malaysia Security Talks In Kuala Lumpur   

Russia’s Security Council Secretary Sergey Shoigu held talks with the Director General of the National Security Council of Malaysia, Nushirwan Zainal Abidin during a visit to Kuala Lumpur on Wednesday, (February 26). This follows meetings between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim in September 2024 on the sidelines of the Eastern […]

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January 27, 2025

China – Shanghai Cooperation Organisation Demo Zone TIR Shipments Increase

The China-SCO Regional Trade and Economic Cooperation Demonstration Zone (China-SCOZ), which is based in China’s Qingdao Port in its Eastern Shandong Province, has been testing shipments to other Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) countries. By the end of 2024, the number of shipments of trucks utilizing the TIR system reached 283, according to Qingdao Customs. The […]

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December 4, 2024

Russia To Increase Involvement and Invest In Pakistan’s Oil Industry

Russia’s Energy Minister Sergey Tsivilyov, has stated that Russia is exploring participation in the upgrade of oil refineries in Pakistan. He was speaking after the meeting of the intergovernmental commission on trade and economic cooperation of Russia and Pakistan, and said that “In the energy sphere, we are already supplying oil to Pakistan. We also […]

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December 3, 2024

Russia Discusses Syria Conflict With Iran: Other Vested Interests

Russia’s pivot to Asia has taken on a new security dimension with the escalation of violence in Syria, where the government has come under attack from the Jabhat al-Nusra extremist group, its allies, and carried out a major attack on Aleppo and other settlements in northern Syria that were under the protection of the Syrian […]

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November 27, 2024

India Commissions Russian-Built Warships

The Indian Defence Minister, Rajnath Singh, is to visit Russia’s Kaliningrad shipyard next month where the Indian Navy Stealth Frigate, INS Tushil is currently being built. The three-day visit will start on December 8, and will include talks with Russian Defence Minister, Andrey Belousov in Moscow. Singh will then travel to the Yantar shipyard located […]

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November 11, 2024

Russia – Kazakhstan – CSTO: 2024 Security and Trade Relations – Update & Analysis

The Russian Foreign Minister, Sergey Lavrov, has been in Astana, Kazakhstan, meeting with the Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, and the Foreign Minister Murat Nurtleu. Following these meetings, Lavrov held a press conference during which he discussed several issues relating to a planned visit by President Putin to attend the Collective Security Treaty Organisation (CSTO), as […]

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October 24, 2024

BRICS, Russia and Iran: 2024 Developments and Implications 

Vladimir Putin has met with Masoud Pezeshkian, the President of Iran at the BRICS Summit in Kazan. This is what they had to say: Putin: “This visit to Russia is your first as President of the Islamic Republic of Iran, and this has great symbolic importance. Iran has become a full participant of BRICS, and […]

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October 17, 2024

Calls For Shanghai Cooperation Organisation Independent Payments Mechanism: Implications For BRICS, SWIFT, US Dollar, Euro and British Pound

Readers will be familiar with discussions amongst the BRICS countries to establish a SWIFT alternative payments and settlements platform, however the concept is now spreading. Russia is calling for the removal of obstacles to the implementation of plans to increase the share of national currencies in mutual settlements between the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) countries […]

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