Definitely. That's why China needs Central Asia to be on her side instead of falling towards NATO. The latter scenario must never be allowed to happen.
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Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) and Global South strategic cooperation
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I can see you put a lot of thoughts on this post, but there are quite a few issues with your points. I don't want this thread to go off the rails since it's not suppose to be military, so please refrain from posting further about it in this thread.
Central Asian countries have just been at the SCO technology transfer forum where they got all kinds of technology given to them. It’s mainly agriculture but I would imagine it also involves security and military technologies.
I suspect that Chinas plans for Central Asia go far beyond what some here are saying.
CA has trade agreements with the EU, Russia and China, it’s connected to the INSTC and the China-Europe railway. This makes it an excellent place to manufacture goods for export to the entire Eurasian landmass.
In order for this to happen, the region must be secure, and that means internal security mostly to prevent coups etc.
Militarily speaking the region must be able to defend itself, a key tenet of the SCO I think. In this regard I hope military discussion is very important to the SCO, and we should be able to discuss it.
If China will be helping build industrial parks with gigafactories powered by solar and hydro then these areas need be be militarily secured.
To me this means air defense, anti-stealth, anti-drone, and other defensive technologies should be shared between SCO members.
Ultimately it’s not enough though, because each SCO member should be able to conventionally deter any non-SCO country.
So, even generally speaking, is there some technology that China can share with SCO that can deter conventional (e.g. from the USA) attacks on them? Could it be quickly and widely produced and shared? I think the answer is yes.
I suspect that Chinas plans for Central Asia go far beyond what some here are saying.
CA has trade agreements with the EU, Russia and China, it’s connected to the INSTC and the China-Europe railway. This makes it an excellent place to manufacture goods for export to the entire Eurasian landmass.
In order for this to happen, the region must be secure, and that means internal security mostly to prevent coups etc.
Militarily speaking the region must be able to defend itself, a key tenet of the SCO I think. In this regard I hope military discussion is very important to the SCO, and we should be able to discuss it.
If China will be helping build industrial parks with gigafactories powered by solar and hydro then these areas need be be militarily secured.
To me this means air defense, anti-stealth, anti-drone, and other defensive technologies should be shared between SCO members.
Ultimately it’s not enough though, because each SCO member should be able to conventionally deter any non-SCO country.
So, even generally speaking, is there some technology that China can share with SCO that can deter conventional (e.g. from the USA) attacks on them? Could it be quickly and widely produced and shared? I think the answer is yes.
I agree. I also add that SCO need to beef up their cooperation and become like 5 Eyes. It means a cooperation in intelligent and counter-intelligent operation.
Actually after I'm thinking about this matter, further, this cooperation is very critical to China and all her allies and friends. CIA can be strong because they have 5 eyes cooperation. If China and Russia can beef up some kind of intelligent cooperation like 5 eyes in SCO, I'm sure SCO members can protect themselves from color revolution better.
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We have multiple threads for this topic. This was created to discuss China's relationship with SCO and the global south. Sure, if they sell something to another country to strengthen relationship, would that be something good to discuss here? Sure.
But I do not want to have this thread getting dragged into war scenarios. There are other clearly marked threads for that.
TEHRAN, Feb. 20 (MNA) – The head of Trade Promotion Organization of Iran (TPOI) said Iran-China agreements reached during President Raeisi's recent visit to Beijing will become operational within the next 2 months.
The Iranian president's visit to China had been planned several months ago with the aim of developing trade and economic relations with China, the TPOI head Alireza Peyman-Pak said.
The head of the TPOI stated that the development of trade and economic relations between Iran and China is one of the important priorities of the 13th Iranian government under Raeisi.
"During the trip, agreements, MoUs and contracts were concluded between the two sides for the development of various relations in tourism, mining, railway, commercial, machinery, industrial and mining equipment fields," Peyman-Pak added.
He said that China is one of the largest consumers of mineral products in the world, adding "therefore, the issue of participation in the development of mines was also discussed."
"The president's recent visit to China was in the spotlight by the Westerners, so it was emphasized between the two countries to keep these agreements confidential until the processes enter the operational phase."
"With the operationalization of the processes, people will see the positive effects of these agreements within the next three to four months, and after that we can publicize these issues," the TPOI head added.
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The Central Bank of Iraq will allow trade with China to be settled directly in RMB.
Main Siem Reap airport work to be done by March.
Quite a big deal for the growth of Cambodian tourism going forward. The majority of tourists visiting Cambodia go to Siem Reap rather than Phnom Penh. In my lone visit there, I found the airport at the time to be adequate but small, but this was probably 7 years ago. I'm sure this new airport is designed for much greater capacity.
Quite a big deal for the growth of Cambodian tourism going forward. The majority of tourists visiting Cambodia go to Siem Reap rather than Phnom Penh. In my lone visit there, I found the airport at the time to be adequate but small, but this was probably 7 years ago. I'm sure this new airport is designed for much greater capacity.
Looks like China is making quite the play in Iraq recently.
so PetroChina now has access to a vast reserve of oil that can be produced at really low cost.
so basically Chinese oil players pushed ExxonMobil out pretty aggressively, so they can make more money on oil sales out of Iraq. Pretty Machiavellian moves all around.
Looks like now that they have full access here, they can make a lot more revenue.
Chinese companies also won 3 out of the 6 oil & gas fields that Iraq put in bidding
800 million standard cubic feet = maybe 80 million cubic meter per day. 0.08 * 365 = 29 bcm. That's quite a decent amount of natural gas actually.
Back in 2019, they signed on to this oil for project deal with the Iraqis. Since then, there are projects like this where Chinese companies build infrastructure in Iraq
Should not be a surprise then that China is Iraq's biggest trading partner
Moving to RMB for trading makes a lot of sense.