♤ Likewise, participation in SCO’s counter-terror exercises and military drills could be beneficial to the Indian armed forces.

♤ SCO membership could help advance talks on the construction of stalled pipelines like TAPI (and possibly IPI later) which is of considerable importance to India’s natural gas needs.

1.4.2. Limitations of India at SCO

♤ Since China and Russia are co-founders of SCO and its dominant powers, India’s ability to

assert itself would be limited and it may have to content itself to playing the second fiddle.