[bruinbirdman]

"Soros was also monkeying around on the Asian markets,"

Shanghai Cooperation Organization -

OSI NATIONAL FOUNDATION OFFICE:
Soros Foundation - Kyrgyzstan
55A, Logvinenko St.
Bishkek, 720040
Kyrgyzstan
Phone: (996 312) 66 34 75, 66 34
Fax: (996 312) 66 34 48
Email: office@soros.kg
Executive Director: Mr. Medet Tiulegenov
Website: http://www.soros.kg/

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[bruinbirdman]

To the chagrin of American diplomats, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) has quickly emerged as a force to be reckoned with in Central Asia.

At the fifth annual SCO summit, held in mid June in Shanghai, participants castigated the United States in a not-so-subtle fashion. An SCO declaration insisted that determining Central Asia’s future was up to the states in the region, and not outside powers. "Models of social development should not be ‘exported,’" the declaration stressed. [For additional information see the Eurasia Insight archive].

Anti-Americanism is the glue that binds the six SCO member states – China, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan – together. Washington’s perceived role in stoking the Orange Revolution phenomenon -- which peaked in March 2005 with the overthrow of Kyrgyzstan’s government – unsettled Central Asian leaders, sending them running to Beijing and Moscow for political succor. [For background see the Eurasia Insight archive]. As a result, the SCO, which as recently as 2004 was receiving scant attention from the State Department, rapidly developed into a geopolitical threat to US interests.