Is China's SCO a counterweight to NATO or just geopolitical theatre
Once a modest Central Asian security forum, theShanghai Cooperation Organisation now pits Beijings ambitions against Western dominance, with its August summitcasting President Xi Jinping as a champion of a new multipolar order. Butinternal rifts raise doubts that it can rival NATO.
From a small-scale security-building mechanism to a heavyweight bloc showcasing Chinas geopolitical ambitions, the Shanghai Cooperati