"Security cooperation has always been the top priority of the Shanghai Cooperation Org (SCO)"- Ding Xiaoxing, CICIR's Director of Inst of Eurasian Studies, disagrees with those who downplay the SCO's role in regional security, claiming that it's becoming even more prominent.
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Ding says that the SCO has done a lot of work in the field of security cooperation over the last 20 years, primarily in six areas:
1) promulgating legal documents and establishing a legal system;
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1) promulgating legal documents and establishing a legal system;
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2) upholding the "new security concept", which is basically an alternative to US-led Western security concept;
3) establishing a cooperation mechanism for exchanging info, coordinating law enforcement, and promoting security cooperation;
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3) establishing a cooperation mechanism for exchanging info, coordinating law enforcement, and promoting security cooperation;
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4) establishing a special counter-terrorism agency;
5) holding counter-terrorism exercises;
6) strengthening border defense cooperation, enhancing joint border defense operations and intel exchanges.
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5) holding counter-terrorism exercises;
6) strengthening border defense cooperation, enhancing joint border defense operations and intel exchanges.
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Ding says that "from 2013 to 2017 alone, the relevant agencies of SCO member States stopped more than 600 terrorist-related criminal activities, destroyed more than 500 militant training bases, and arrested more than 2,000 members of international terrorist organizations."
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He adds that "Because of the SCO's effective security cooperation, Central Asia has avoided the "Middle Easternization" trend predicted by some Western scholars."
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Link: opinion.huanqiu.com/article/44luad…
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Link: opinion.huanqiu.com/article/44luad…
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