Central Asian Security Alliance: Putin, Wen To Include Iran And Pakistan

[Purveyor]

Source: RECORDER REPORT

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and his Chinese counterpart Wen Jiabao will meet Monday to discuss expanding their loose Central Asian security alliance to include Pakistan and Iran.

Putin will host Wen in his native city of Saint Petersburg almost exactly 10 years after the two countries joined forces with the four ex-Soviet Central Asian republics to form the Shanghai Co-operation Organisation (SCO).

Russia has previously billed the alliance as a regional alternative to Nato and discussed at past meetings the option of including other regional powers in its ranks.

"We are talking about Pakistan and Iran, which have applied for membership," Russian foreign ministry spokesman Alexander Lukashevich told reporters ahead of the talks.

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[jwirr]

1. Emmanuel Todd's book After The Empire: The Breakdown of the

American Order predicted exactly this in 2002. The world that ended when the USSR collapsed would break up into regional governments: Russia, China and Iran with EU neutral because all their oil/gas comes from either Russia or Iran; Central & South America; the ME/African countries (without Israel) and the USA with Canada due to proximity. Three world powers balancing each other out.

His book is worth reading.

[pam4water]

2. But we've always been at war with the Central Asian Security Alliance... Couldn't resist :P