“Tectonic shifts are underway in global politics, economy, and other spheres of international relations. A fairer multipolar world order is being born.” Opening words of the SCO 2024 declaration, Astana, Kazakhstan.

“A fairer multipolar world order is being born”. Eight words that sum up what is being created at pace and yet is being largely ignored by the Western media. “Tectonic shifts” indeed are happening as the countries that represent the bulk of Eurasia’s landmass, economy, population and military might come together in an alliance that not only is linking the vast region that stretches from Europe to the Sea of Japan, but will transform global power dynamics for the coming century and push the demi-gods of the Western World out of the driver’s seat and back into the ranks of humanity.

What is the SCO – one of the key organisations now driving this change? Most people I ask have never even heard of it – the fault of our shallow and tunnel-visioned media – yet it is rapidly becoming bigger and more powerful than the G7, that mighty alliance of old and neo-colonial powers. The member states of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) are: India, China, Russia, Iran, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, the Kyrgyz Republic, Pakistan, Tajikistan and, as of 2024, Belarus. Dialogue partners are numerous and include heavyweights like Türkiye and Saudi Arabia. Let’s crunch a few key stats:

What is happening under the SCO is that these advantages are being coordinated and leveraged in a way and to an extent never done before. BRICS is a powerful global bloc whilst SCO represents a contiguous landmass; together they will more than match the West in the coming decades.

Napoleon Bonaparte, perhaps apocryphally, is quoted as saying: “Let China sleep … because when China awakes the world will shake.”

We are living........

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