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Quoted in: South China Morning Post: "Why the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation isn’t Nato for Iran"


"Why the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation isn’t Nato for Iran"

By Cao Jiaxuanin Beijing 

South China Morning Post

30 May, 2026

Published: https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3355303/why-shanghai-cooperation-organisation-isnt-nato-iran 

Central Asia is tilting more decisively towards China as geopolitical uncertainty deepens, with Beijing’s expanding influence recasting the former Soviet states’ strategic orientation. In the final instalment of a three-part series, Cao Jiaxuan examines how Central Asian members of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation have shaped the bloc’s response to the US-Iran conflict. Read the first part here and the second part here. 

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