Eurasia Rising: The China, Russia, North Korea Axis; The SCO’s Transformation, and Pakistan’s Strategic Choices in a New Bloc World Order
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https://doi.org/10.62843/jrsr/2025.4c124Keywords:
Shanghai Cooperation Organization, China, Russia, North Korea, Pakistan, Multipolarity, Bloc Politics, Typhon Missile System, Eurasian OrderAbstract
This article examines a fateful week in September 2025 which solidified the revival of the bloc politics on the international platform. China hosted the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit in Tianjin, negated its military capabilities and historical revisionism with a Victory Day parade in Beijing and the US deployed missiles of its Typhon model to Japan. The new power pole, in Eurasian response, was added to by the possibility of an informed and assertive Russia, in opposition to China, suggesting the emergence of a new power pole. This paper addresses the reasons why the SCO has become as confidence and cooperation-building forum; how China, Russia and North Korea are becoming axis of defiance; and how Pakistan can ride on the finding wave of transformation using a historical-analytical perspective. It argues that these events are the dawn of a new multipolar order, which is challenging U.S. led hegemony.
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