While India is a member of the SCO, America is also one of India’s closest friends. America is openly helping India with weapons against China which is engaged in intimidation on LAC. Both India and America are walking shoulder to shoulder against China’s growing aggression in the Indo-Pacific region. India is a member of the Quad, which has been created only to stop the bullying of China. These member countries of India, Japan, Australia America Quad are working together to end dependence on China. There are frequent exercises in the armies of all the four countries. Australia has entered into an OCUS military deal with America. America had also helped India in failing China’s nefarious move in Ladakh.
SCO vs NATO, who is on which side
If we talk about SCO, then it is the largest organization in the world on the basis of total area, which covers an area of 30 million square kilometers. That too when only the first SCO members Russia, China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan are included in it. Now countries like India, Pakistan and Iran have also joined this organization. Many more countries are still in line to join the SCO. Although this organization does not surpass NATO in terms of land mass. NATO countries have very little land but they have a lot of specialty.
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Talking about democracy, SCO is far behind NATO in this matter. Where America has dominance in NATO, but it is also dependent on other member countries. On the other hand, if we talk about SCO, it is dominated by China but it is not dependent on any member country. There is no doubt who is in charge in these organizations. As far as NATO is concerned, its countries are expert in using each other’s resources. This is why NATO is miles ahead of SCO. This is the reason why NATO is far ahead of SCO in military strength.
Thousands of soldiers of China and Russia practice
In the midst of the Ukraine war, both Russia and China are continuously conducting maneuvers. So far Russia and China have conducted more than 24 counter-terrorism military exercises. There are 8 naval exercises in this. Western analysts say that Russia and China used to practice with very little army earlier but now the number of soldiers has become very high. 1000 aircraft and 3 lakh soldiers took part in the Vostok 2018 exercise. 36 thousand military weapons took part in it. India had also participated in an exercise under the SCO in Russia in the past but had abstained from the naval exercise in Japan. Pakistan has also started participating in these exercises.
India, however, has so far only sent very small contingents to SCO military exercises. According to the Quint report, India has refused to increase the number of troops in view of the complexity of the military exercise. Iran has also joined the SCO, which is a staunch anti-US country. Where Finland has joined NATO, now there is an increased possibility that Saudi Arabia will also join SCO. Saudi Arabia was till now in the camp of America but now it is changing its side. Experts believe that India will have to remain alert in this camp happening in the world and maintain a balance between both the factions. Not only this, America is also eyeing this whole conference.