yglesias.thinkprogress.org - 8/29/2008
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Russia and China, along with a few buddies, set up an international organization called the Shanghai Cooperation Organization. It doesn’t really do anything, but it exists as a sort of gesture of non-NATO solidarity and an implicit threat to do something for real someday. And it seems Vladimir Putin and Dmitry Medvedev were expecting the SCO to back them over the Georgia issue in ...
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Rules of the Game
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China isn't comfortable with the rules Russia wants to play with. A summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, a seven- nation security alliance that includes China and four former Soviet republics, yesterday declined to back its recognition of two breakaway Georgian regions. China expressed ``concern,'' said Qin Gang, a Foreign Ministry spokesman. As Doug suggests, territorial integrity is a value that Russia really shouldn't have expected China to have a sense of humor about. In every international forum worth the name, China has fought for the supremacy of territorial sovereignty over the right of self-determination, and ...
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