China is making a bid for Central Asia’s energy resources — a move that will ultimately expand into a bid for geopolitical control of the entire region. Russia is waking up to the threat and starting to take countermeasures, setting the stage for a broad Sino-Russian conflict in Central Asia.
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March 27 (Bloomberg) — China’s growing influence in Asia and its increased military spending are concerns for Japan’s national security, the Japanese government said today, in its annual strategic review.
The Defense Ministry’s East Asia Strategic Review 2007 expressed concern over Chinese diplomacy in Southeast and central Asia, which it says is aimed at reducing [...]

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Earlier this year, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad arrived in China � and quickly made himself at home. The occasion was a meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), a regional group linking China, Russia and Central Asia. During the summit, Mr. Ahmadinejad seemed to be everywhere. He delivered a major address broadcast [...]

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The Shanghai Cooperation Organization, a major vehicle for a Chinese-Russian strategic cooperation, is exerting increasing pressure on US strategic interests in Central Asia. Robust engagement with the SCO by the United States and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization would offer Washington the best way of containing the group�s rising influence.

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