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Russia has always been against NATO and lately it is pushing hard for a strong SCO (Shanghai Cooperation Organisation) [1] which is branded as Russia's/China's

Russia has always been against NATO and lately it is pushing hard for a strong SCO (Shanghai Cooperation Organisation) [1] which is branded as Russia's/China's answer to NATO. The current major issue with SCO though is it needs either India or Pakistan or both as its members to make it a formidable military alliance. But since India and Pakistan are archrivals there are differences between Russia, which has always backed India, and China, which has always backed Pakistan. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shanghai_Cooperation_Organisation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shanghai_Cooperation_Organisati...

cabalamat 15y ago
> Russia has always been against NATO and lately it is pushing hard for a strong SCO (Shanghai Cooperation Organisation) [1] which is branded as Russia's/China's answer to NATO. This is true. In the long term, Russia needs to decide whether it wants to be a satellite of China, or part of NATO / the West. Bear in mind that SCO isn't actually a military alliance (with mutual defence obligations) yet, although it may become so in the future.