Deeper SCO Cooperation Promises Regional Peace and Development

Over the past decade, SCO members have made concerted efforts within the SCO framework to deter mounting security threats and challenges through the creation of transnational anti-terror agencies and the staging of more than 10 multinational joint drills.

Nowadays, as their strategic interests become increasingly aligned and intertwined, SCO members have seen their cooperation, with economy and security as the “two wheels,” significantly expand and diversify.

China, which saw a nearly 10-fold increase in its trade with other SCO members from 2001 to 2011, has raised a host of strategic concepts for common development. They include the building of a Silk Road economic belt, which will engage and benefit all six SCO members and five observers, namely Afghanistan, India, Iran, Mongolia and Pakistan.

In the face of constantly changing international and regional landscapes, SCO members have become patrons of regional peace and partners in common development. They are destined to play bigger roles and shoulder larger responsibilities in the near future.

(Source: Xinhua)