The Dragon Looks West: China and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization


 

Publication Date: January 2006

Publisher: Heritage Foundation (Washington, D.C.)

Author(s): Ariel Cohen

Research Area: International relations

Keywords: Asia and the Pacific

Type: Report

Coverage: China Russia (Federation)

Abstract:

The Shanghai Cooperation Organization, a grouping of Russia, China, and several Central Asian states, has an ambitious economic and security agenda infused with Chinese and Russian suspicion of U.S. designs in Eurasia and a desire to reduce U.S. influence in Central Asia.