{"id":206254,"date":"2022-09-16T20:14:26","date_gmt":"2022-09-16T14:44:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=206254"},"modified":"2022-09-16T20:14:26","modified_gmt":"2022-09-16T14:44:26","slug":"strategic-autonomy-indias-membership-of-sco-serves-its-interests-and-is-not-at-odds-with-its-other-alliances","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/strategic-autonomy-indias-membership-of-sco-serves-its-interests-and-is-not-at-odds-with-its-other-alliances\/","title":{"rendered":"Strategic autonomy: India\u2019s membership of SCO serves its interests and is not at odds with its other alliances"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Source<\/strong>&#8211; The post is based on the article <strong>\u201cStrategic autonomy: India\u2019s membership of SCO serves its interests and is not at odds with its other alliances\u201d <\/strong>published in <strong>The Times of India <\/strong>on <strong>16th September 2022<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Syllabus: <\/strong>GS2- Regional and global grouping<\/p>\n<p><strong>Relevance<\/strong>&#8211; About SCO<\/p>\n<p><strong>News<\/strong>-The article explains the relevance of SCO for India.<\/p>\n<pre>PM Modi is attending the 22nd summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation.<\/pre>\n<h5><strong>What are some facts about SCO?<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>SCO accounts for 40% of the global population and 30% of GDP.<\/p>\n<p>Majority of SCO members have a pronounced anti-western position.<\/p>\n<h5><strong>What is its significance for India and what are the limitations?<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>SCO is important from the perspective of India&#8217;s <strong>strategic autonomy<\/strong>.For example, during the Ukraine crisis, we imported crude oil from both US and Russia.<\/p>\n<p>SCO is a reminder of <strong>pragmatism in foreign policy<\/strong> that we can have an economic relationship with adversaries.For example, both Japan and Australia, despite being members of Quad, have close economic integration with China.<\/p>\n<h5><strong>What are the limitations?<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>Gains from SCO will be limited on account of China.Given the structural nature of disputes between them,bilateral meetings on the sidelines of the summit will not be successful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source&#8211; The post is based on the article \u201cStrategic autonomy: India\u2019s membership of SCO serves its interests and is not at odds with its other alliances\u201d published in The Times of India on 16th September 2022. Syllabus: GS2- Regional and global grouping Relevance&#8211; About SCO News-The article explains the relevance of SCO for India. PM&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/strategic-autonomy-indias-membership-of-sco-serves-its-interests-and-is-not-at-odds-with-its-other-alliances\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Strategic autonomy: India\u2019s membership of SCO serves its interests and is not at odds with its other alliances<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10320,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,9],"tags":[212,10496],"class_list":["post-206254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-gs-paper-2","tag-times-of-india","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704813840},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10320"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206254\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}