Shanghai Cooperation Organisation: Can it accommodate Indian interests?

While SCO's past whispers of a bright future, whispers might get lost in a cacophony of diverse national interests and priorities

The upcoming Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Summit will be held on June 9-10 in Qingdao-a coastal city in China’s Shandong province. It is poised to become a significant step forward for the grouping as this will be the first time when new entrants to the group will participate in the SCO Summit. Chinese President Xi Jinping will chair the Summit. It may be noted that India and Pakistan were accepted as full members of the SCO at the Astana summit in Kazakhstan in 2017.

Two decades ago, when China and Russia, along with three newborn Central Asian Republics-Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and