The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO), whose leaders gathered this week in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, is named after one of the modern world's great maritime nodes - the port city of Shanghai.
But its agenda is purely continental - that of stabilising the Eurasian landmass under the leadership of China and Russia.
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