{"id":86,"date":"2006-08-25T07:37:25","date_gmt":"2006-08-25T06:37:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/wordpress\/?p=86"},"modified":"2006-08-25T07:37:25","modified_gmt":"2006-08-25T06:37:25","slug":"forgotten-world-30-shanghai-cooperation-organisation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=86","title":{"rendered":"Forgotten world (30):  Shanghai Cooperation Organisation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today let\u2019s look at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sectsco.org\/home.asp?LanguageID=2\">Shanghai Cooperation Organisation<\/a>. I know &#8211; you\u2019ve never heard of it, but it is an organisation of considerable geo-political importance.  It was founded by China five years ago. As well as China, the members are Russia and the central Asian republics of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, and Tajikistan. Observer members are India, Pakistan, Mongolia and Iran. Japan is not there. The USA has been refused observer status.<br \/>\nIn terms of total population, area and resources, the SCO is far bigger than the European Union or NATO. The total area occupied by the SCO member states is over 30 million square kilometres, or about three fifths the territory of Eurasia, with a population of 1.455 billion people, or about a quarter of the total population of the world. Also, significantly, member countries control almost a quarter of the world\u2019s oil supplies.<br \/>\nThe SCO is not yet a mutual defence pact, but it is heading that way. China\u2019s president Hu Jintao states that the SCO represents \u201ca new security concept\u201d. The official puposes of the organisation conclude with the words \u201cstriving towards creation of a democratic, just, reasonable new international political and economic order\u201d, but David Wall of Chatham House\u2019s Asia programme calls the SCO \u201ca club for autocrats and dictators\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today let\u2019s look at the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation. I know &#8211; you\u2019ve never heard of it, but it is an organisation of considerable geo-political importance. It was founded by China five years ago. As well as China, the members are Russia and the central Asian republics of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, and Tajikistan. Observer members are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=86"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=86"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=86"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=86"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}