Monday, September 22, 2014

China Is Trying To Build A New World Order

Pax Sinica: China Is Trying To Build A New World Order, Starting In Asia -- The Economist

THE clue is in the name. The Shanghai Co-operation Organisation (SCO) groups six countries—China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan—and aims to be the dominant security institution in its region; but its origin and purposes are largely Chinese. So it looks rather worrying from a Western point of view that the group has agreed to expand and that India, Pakistan and Iran are all keen to join: the rise of a kind of China-led NATO to which even America’s friends, such as India and Pakistan, seem drawn. Yet that is to misunderstand the sort of organisation the SCO aspires to be. It does indeed pose a challenge to the American-led world order, but a much more subtle one.

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My Comment: They have a majority of the world's population .... but as to countries like India/China/Japan/Russia working together .... I have to see it to believe it.

1 comment:

D.Plowman said...

Obama seems to destroy American foreign relations with any country he steps in or picks up the phone to speak too so...

Maybe Japan should quarantine their country and cut off all communication until the next administration steps in. You know, just to be safe!