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Advertisement This week the members of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) met virtually for their annual summit. The gathering marked Iran’s newly minted membership but was ultimately dampened by tensions inside, and outside, the group. The SCO originated with the Shanghai Five. Formed in 1996, the initial group — including China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, and … Read more
Advertisement The number of Sino-Indian border escalations in the past decade has outnumbered those that occurred in the five decades after the 1962 border war. These recent escalations shattered the stability that both sides had achieved through agreements signed in 1993, 1996, and 2005. The unresolved border disputes, the rise of nationalist leaders in both … Read more
Flashpoints | Diplomacy | South Asia New Delhi’s relationship with Moscow, its Cold War ally, has remained strong. But Beijing gaining more sway over Moscow could prove frustrating for India. Advertisement India’s foreign minister held talks Thursday with counterparts from China and Russia ahead of a meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization in Goa, India. Subrahmanyam Jaishankar said he … Read more