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102 China Int'l Stud. 37 (2023)
China's Approach to the Shanghai Corporation Organization: Strategies, Progress and Prospects

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   China's Approach to the Shanghai Cooperation


   Organization: Strategies, Progress and Prospects



                                                              Deng  Hao

A t the 22nd meeting of the Council of Heads of State of the
          Shanghai  Cooperation   Organization   (SCO)  in  2022,  Chinese
          President Xi Jinping delivered an  important  speech titled Ride
on  the Trend  of the Times   and Enhance   Solidarity and Cooperation   to
Embrace   a  Better Future.  In the speech,  President Xi  proposed  five
commitments        commitments   to the principles of political trust, win-
win  cooperation,  equality between  nations,  openness  and  inclusiveness,
and  equity  and  justice.1 The speech  tersely summarized   the successful
development   experience of the SCO   and pointed  out the future direction
and   path  for  the organization  and   other  similar new   international
organizations that it typifies. Today's world is undergoing historic changes
not seen in a century and still suffering from the repercussions of the once-
in-a-century  pandemic.  The  crisis in Ukraine  is getting protracted and
complicated  and  is likely to drag the world into an uncertain period  rife
with severe challenges.
     Under   such  a  historical backdrop,  reviewing  China's  history  of
promoting   the  SCO's  development   can  illustrate its primary strategies
for the  organization's development  in the new  era and  clarify its future
tasks in  building the  SCO   community with a shared future. Such an


Deng Hao is Secretary-General of the China Center for SCO Studies and Senior Research Fellow of China
Institute of International Studies (CIIS). The article was originally published in Chinese in Academic
Journal of Russian Studies, No.4, 2023.
1  Xi Jinping's Speech at the 22nd Meeting of the Council of Heads of State of the Shanghai
Cooperation Organization (Full Text), Xinhua, September 16, 2022, http://www.news.cn/world/2022-
09/16/c 1129008994.htm.


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