Shanghai Cooperation Organization shows the image of successful Chinese diplomacy and for a group photo

 

SCO shows the  the image of successful Chinese diplomacy and for a group photo

 

Seeking to exert more global influence, China has fostered the creation of a multitude of new international groupings over the past two decades.
 
Andrei Lungu, however, questions whether these groups have benefited anyone but China, pointing to the recent Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit in Samarkand, Uzbekistan. The group supposedly dedicated to security, peace and stability made no attempt to address bloody clashes between members Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan that erupted just 200 kilometers away from the gathering.
 
"For Beijing, the fact that its organizations are little more than talk shops is not a bug, but a feature," writes the president of the Romanian Institute for the Study of the Asia-Pacific. "These groups are not meant to tie China into military alliances or to involve handing over powers to supranational bureaucracies.
 
"They are meant only to create the image of successful Chinese diplomacy and of Beijing's ability to bring countries together," he adds. "And bring them together it does, at least for a group photo."