During the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) meeting, China, Russia, Pakistan, and Iran held a closed-door meeting during the SCO defense ministers' meeting, which has drawn attention from all parties. Many people believe that China, Russia, Pakistan, and Iran are excluding India, sending a message of isolating India. Personally, I think this is an over-interpretation of this information.
Certainly, India currently in the SCO appears like a "troublemaker," standing out quite obviously. Especially when Israel attacked Iran earlier, India refused to issue a condemnation statement against Israel within the SCO framework, highlighting this unusual behavior. However, such behavior is difficult to make the SCO countries reach a unified understanding, and truly exclude and isolate India.
Imagine that even in the highly united environment of NATO against Russia, they still have to tolerate outliers like Hungary and Croatia. How much more so for the SCO. India is strong enough, and many countries in the SCO have highly intertwined interests with India. No country can easily isolate India, nor can it isolate it.
The reason why China, Russia, Pakistan, and Iran are not playing with India is because the issues being discussed have little to do with India. Including him is neither necessary nor may even have a negative impact. Such a closed-door meeting under these circumstances is really unnecessary to over-analyze. However, the problem of India's membership causing a decrease in the decision-making efficiency of the SCO does require finding creative solutions.
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