Would the Shanghai Cooperation Organization Institutionally Confront the United States?
Shanghai Cooperation Organization: Ineffective Counterweight to NATO and the United States The SCO on inception was designed as a counterweight to NATOs Eastward creep towards the peripheries of Russia and China. The founding impulses also had their origins in arresting unbridled United States unilateralism in global strategic affairs after the disintegration of the Soviet Union. China also figured that the SCO as a security organization would be a strategic pressure point available to it against the United States in East Asia to play Chinese power- play mind-games. China had more stronger strategic imperatives to pre-empt any unilateral military interventions on humanitarian grounds by the United States in Chinas outlying regions of Xingjiang and possibly Tibet. China was also impelled by considerations of energy security pertaining to the pipelines grid that it was configuring for spreading over the Central Asian landmass. At the end of ten years of its existence it can be analyzed t
