https://www.scmp.com/rss/322000/feed en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com As India gains full membership of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) at its Tashkent summit this week, the move will provide a fillip to the long-standing strategic Russia-China-India triangle. It will also reinforce the organisation’s portrayal as Eurasia’s most potent strategic, economic political and military grouping, fast emerging as a counter to Nato’s eastward expansion. As the trio expands its influence across Eurasia, it is expected to further accelerate the exit of the US, EU... https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/1978452/how-china-russia-and-india-will-seek-shape-eurasia-their-own?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/1978452/how-china-russia-and-india-will-seek-shape-eurasia-their-own?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 21 Jun 2016 06:58:41 +0000 After the Asean-China and Asean-India summits in Beijing and New Delhi in 2006 and 2012 respectively, the US next week hosts the third “out-of-region” Asean summit at the historic Annenberg Estate in Sunnylands, California. But, if US Secretary of State John Kerry’s recent preparatory trips to Laos (the current Asean chair), Cambodia and China are anything to go by, America’s attempts to showcase “Asean unity” by exploring a consensus on the South China Sea have only revealed the growing... https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/1912335/obama-must-find-ways-enhance-asean-unity-amid-growing?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/1912335/obama-must-find-ways-enhance-asean-unity-amid-growing?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 12 Feb 2016 06:03:39 +0000 This year is set to be the year when the US forges new nuclear partnerships with China and India, and could explore joint projects in third countries, with Westinghouse Electric and the Hualong nuclear power company in negotiations for such ventures. But, given previous mutual security and non-proliferation concerns, this newfound enthusiasm may also be breeding new anxieties. To begin with, complicated and long-winded structural integrity tests have just been declared successful for two of the... https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/1898090/great-power-relations-how-us-china-and-india-will-forge-new?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/1898090/great-power-relations-how-us-china-and-india-will-forge-new?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 05 Jan 2016 09:44:33 +0000