Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) and Global South strategic cooperation

• Russia’s relationship with the People’s Republic of China (PRC) has evolved into a functional, operational Eurasian architecture anchored in financial integration, technological cooperation, energy interdependence, and coordinated geopolitical positioning, reducing Western coercive leverage and institutionalizing parallel systems of trade and finance.
• By committing to mutual support on “core interests” and insulating cooperation from Western sanctions, the February 2022 “no limits” pact removed strategic ambiguity, tethered their war in Ukraine with the Taiwan theater conceptually, and transformed convergence into path-dependent coordination that deepened through wartime economic, military, and technological integration.
• From 2022–2025, this incipient bloc logic became operational and institutionalized. Through international platforms like the Shanghai Cooperation Organization and BRICS, cross-border industrial mechanisms, financial insulation frameworks, expanded energy corridors, and synchronized military activity, Beijing and Moscow accelerated bureaucratic interoperability and normalized sanctions circumvention.
• Bloc alignment, structured around durable asymmetry, is now the baseline. Russia increasingly functions as a junior escalatory actor—economically dependent on the PRC for trade, technology, and battlefield inputs—while Beijing serves as stabilizer and ballast against sanctions pressure.
• As long as confrontation with the West remains the organizing principle of both regimes, this senior–junior Eurasian axis is likely to harden rather than fragment, complicating efforts to isolate either country.

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Michael90 said:

Is that why even the CCP has tried to change north koreas stance several times but has failed to do so miserably ? If the kim dynasty policy was so right then why do you think even China has tried to get them to adopt different policies/reforms before ? Even China had to change their stance in the late 70s after Mao’s death. You don’t have to be a US ally/friend(there are no friends in geo politics anyway) but adopting a pragmatic positive relations goes a lon way. And yes they could have made concessions to get a deal done and open up their country /market . Afterall, what does nuclear power brings to the people apart from giving some sort of assurance to the fat Kim dynasty? The people benefits zero from hat it only isolates them even more . They already had a mystical defense treaty with China so any outside intervention is even more far fetched . If they are still insecure then what’s even the point of chin still maintaining that mutual defense treaty ?

admit it, the Kim dynasty has been a failure and a bad luck for North Korean people. The whole of Asia has moved on to economic development and intervention but both Korea is basically the only country in Asia and even the world (along with Eritrea) who have remained stacked in the path. They are basically frozen since the 70s. That’s a tragedy for the North Korean people . To see people supporting is actually funny (ironically it’s always those foreigners who live comfortably in their country that often support the regime, mostly due to their anti US/western stance only. lol but they won’t ever dare go to North Korea to live there . lol)
the Kim dynasty seems to think spending almost all the country’s GDP on military will secure his family dynasty forever . However they seem to forget that a regime doesn’t survive long just based on military might, else the Soviet Union who was over 100times stronger militarily wouldn’t have collapsed. So their time will come one day as well, it’s a matter of when not if.
Like Einstein said “insanity is doing the same thing and expecting different results “ . lol

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Heresy said:

It takes a special type of moron to see what is happening to Iran in real time and go, "That! North Korea should have done That!"

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TOKYO DRIFT ABC said:

When your life is already a total hellscape, a missile strike is basically just a fireworks show to break the monotony lol

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Unlike many Western airlines, Chinese carriers can fly directly through Russian airspace to Europe rather than taking a lengthy detour, allowing them to offer quicker flights, save on fuel and avoid sending planes over the Middle East.

The number of European flights offered by Chinese airlines will rise by a net 2,891, with flagship carrier Air China adding 1,120, China Southern Airlines adding 839 and China Eastern Airlines adding 654, according to data compiled by the British aviation intelligence firm OAG. Smaller Chinese carriers including Hainan Airlines also have plans to increase their China-Europe flights, OAG said, with the announced schedules covering a period running from the end of March to October.

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Wrought said:

Access to Russian airspace continues to pay dividends for Chinese airlines. Many more routes coming up, especially since the old detours over the Middle East are, uh, not a great idea right now.

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ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan and Afghanistan held the first round of peace talks on Wednesday, with China mediating to broker a durable ceasefire after

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, two Pakistani officials said. But even as the talks were held, Afghanistan accused Pakistan of firing mortars into its territory. Representatives from the two countries were meeting in Urumqi, in northern China, the officials told The Associated Press, speaking on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to brief the media. The first round of talks concluded on Wednesday afternoon and were expected to continue on Thursday, they said.

According to the sources, the latest round of talks began after both sides accepted China’s offer to mediate to end the fighting. The two sides will continue their talks on Thursday. China has urged both sides to resume dialogue since late February, and its special envoy, Yue Xiaoyong, met his Pakistani counterpart, Mohammad Sadiq, last month after visiting Kabul.

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